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...Less than half the city's population has returned. Congress is still debating when, or even if, it will unleash $4.2 billion in community development block grants allocated for the city's rebuilding. And the candidates Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu had largely managed to sidestep the most troublesome questions facing the city: whether it is realistic to rebuild New Orleans' entire pre-Hurricane Katrina footprint - a daunting prospect for a city hard-pressed to provide basic services for its drastically reduced populace - and how it will handle things if another major hurricane hit the city. Most...
...With a 52%-48% margin, Nagin, a pro-business Democrat who cobbled together enough conservative white support to give him the edge, cast himself as the underdog, a non- politician who had performed admirably under the unprecedented pressure of Katrina. Landrieu, who comes from a powerful Democratic political family (his sister is U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and his father was the city's last white mayor), ran a cautious campaign that was long on money but short on specifics...
...nation's most closely watched municipal race ever, Nagin's victory was a dramatic example of democracy in action. Thousands of displaced city residents went to extraordinary lengths to exercise the right to vote, though some observers think they could have an unhealthy influence on the future planning for New Orleans...
That is precisely what the city and state want. In announcing evacuation plans in early May, the city's embattled Mayor Ray Nagin, who won re-election Saturday, pointedly noted that there would be no shelter of last resort like the Superdome or "vertical" evacuations to hotels downtown. He said the city would be calling more readily for evacuations, ordering everyone out for a hurricane as weak as Category 2. The state last week geared up shelter plans, identifying places for 55,000 evacuees--more space than was available last year after the Superdome closed. In addition to Red Cross...
While stressing that residents should arrange for their own evacuation, Nagin has promised that buses and trains would take those without transportation, as well as the elderly and people with special medical needs, to out-of-town shelters before a storm hits. The state, which has responsibility for transportation, has already contracted with private coach companies and school districts for an unknown number of buses. State help is key since the Regional Transit Authority, which runs public transportation in New Orleans, has only about 100 operating buses that survived Katrina. A new system of processing evacuees at two locations...