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John McQuaid

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. In 2002, he co-authored a series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, where he’d worked for more than 20 years, that predicted the fate that would befall New Orleans three years later. He has just published a three-part investigative series on the Mother Jones website titled “Storm Warning.” He is co-author of the book, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms.

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