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...Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, is in trouble for comments he made ... He said God is sending hurricanes to America because he is mad at us. And today, Pat Robertson said, 'Hey! I speak for God! Not you!'" --JAY LENO...
...light district once known as Storyville would be revived as a jazz center near the French Quarter. There would be charter schools instead of slum schools, a streamlined city government and, most important, rebuilt levees. But that "audacious" action plan laid out last week by Mayor Ray Nagin's 17-member Bring New Orleans Back Commission has met with a storm of controversy, not just from residents of the poor Ninth Ward but also from wealthier and whiter areas like Lakeview. Homeowners are infuriated by a recommendation to halt rebuilding--indeed, to stop issuing permits--for four months, until...
Today, the New Orleans rebuilding commission will release an official blueprint report recommending a strategy for the revival of the city. Appointed by Mayor C. Ray Nagin, the commission will recommend that residents be allowed to return to the city and rebuild wherever they choose, regardless of how vulnerable or devastated the area. Following a 12-month period, those neighborhoods that have not sustained an undefined “critical mass” of inhabitants will likely be returned to marshland; those residents who have settled in the interim will be required to leave the region, costing the federal government...
...Absolute local decision. I wouldn't want to give Mayor Nagin the opportunity to say I was the federal mayor of New Orleans twice (laughing...
...Absolute local decision. I wouldn't want to give Mayor Nagin the opportunity to say I was the federal mayor of New Orleans twice (laughing...