News & Press

CHHS Expands to Universities at Shady Grove

September 6, 2010

CHHS has opened new offices on the campus of the Universities at Shady Grove (USG), establishing a local presence among the growing number of CHHS clients in the Washington, D.C. metro region.

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Stafford Act declaration and the Gulf oil spill

July 26, 2010
Mobile Press-Register

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Americans with Disabilities Act: 20 years later

July 15, 2010
Saint Louis University News

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The role of Citizens Corps in emergency preparedness and response

June 21, 2010
Delaware News-Journal

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"Citizen Corps is supposed to prepare the community for an emergency or disaster of a large nature -- not simply like a house fire," said JoAnne Knapp, a senior policy analyst at the University of Maryland Center for Health & Homeland Security.

Red tape stalls New York anti-terror funding

June 4, 2010
Newsday

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"Both sides are a little right and both sides are a little wrong," said Michael Greenberger, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Health and Homeland Security.

CHHS Director: no-fly list system needs overhaul

May 6, 2010
WTOP, 103.5 FM

CHHS Director Michael Greenberger is interviewed live on WTOP radio (Washington, D.C.) to discuss lapses in the investigation of Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of attempting to detonate a homemade bomb in Times Square.

Times Square bomb suspect's near escape a sign of a "weak and failing system"

May 5, 2010
"The World," NPR

Details have emerged of how Pakistan-born Faisal Shahzad, who is suspected of plotting to bomb New York City’s Times Square, was arrested while trying to leave the US. Shahzad was allowed onto a Dubai-bound plane at JFK Airport, despite being on a no-fly list. It was only when customs agents checked passenger names 30 minutes before take-off that he was noticed and arrested.

CHHS Director: terrorists looking for anyone, anywhere to strike back

May 5, 2010
WYPR

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Michael Greenberger is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Law. He's also the director of the school's Center for Health and Homeland Security. Greenberger says it's not accurate to think that extremists in the U.S. are all Muslims.

What the failed Times Square bombing means for the overall terrorist threat

May 3, 2010
Maryland Public Television

CHHS Director Michael Greenberger is interviewed live on MPT's "Direct Connection" to discuss the implications of the Times Square bomb plot.

CHHS Director says Gulf oil spill could qualify for federal disaster declaration

April 29, 2010
The Mississippi Press

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WASHINGTON -- Although federal disaster declarations usually follow hurricanes and other natural calamities, the manmade oil spill in the Gulf could conceivably qualify as well, experts said Tuesday.

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