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...that seemed patently out of touch, including the now-infamous remark that no one could have foreseen the levee breaking. His inability to see any moral distinction between those who steal water and those who loot TV sets seemed odd-and at odds with local politicians like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Then where was the call for sacrifice? While southern governors like Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue worried publicly about gas shortfalls as soon as this weekend and begged for conservation, Bush seemed to do so only as an afterthought...
...same time city leaders "had the 'uh-oh!' moment, they also had the 'aha!' moment," recalls Kirk Watson, a lawyer and then community leader who later became Austin's mayor. As luck would have it, Austin was in the market for a new airport to replace the 63-year-old one the city had long outgrown. Bergstrom, with its 12,250-ft. runway, on which giant B-52 bombers could land, was ideal for the jumbo jets that carry the international air-cargo traffic Austin wanted to attract. So the city seized the opportunity, wading through mounds of federal...
...first arrivals. The terminal has special touches: Amy's Ice Cream and the Salt Lick Barbecue Restaurant serve local delicacies, and a stage in the concourse offers live music. The airport brings in $1.8 billion annually and has created 35,700 new jobs. Bruce Todd, who was mayor in 1991, regrets the time the city initially wasted trying to fight the base closing. His advice to mayors facing what he did: "Leave the past behind" and "visualize the future...
...community, like others, "fought very hard to keep the base open," says Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer. "But once it became clear that the base would close, very quickly we shifted from mourning the loss to looking at the opportunity." In short order, local leaders organized a development group and agreed on a refurbishing plan, helped along by $12 million in local, state and federal grants. "I don't think there's any doubt that the community is better off [than when the base was there]," says Markham. The Air Force, for example, paid no property taxes, which are currently collected...
...fact wearing a denim jacket and had walked through the ticket barrier. A leaked statement from one of the surveillance officers described how Menezes had been restrained before he was shot. "We need to look very, very closely at the police shoot-to-kill policy," says former Deputy Mayor of London Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority's complaints committee. "At the very least, people have a right to know exactly what it is." Menezes' family lashed out at police. "For three weeks, we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean...