Archive for the ‘Katrina Recovery’ Category

“I wonder how bad it’s going to have to get before those in power decide we’re going to stop it”

Friday, December 5th, 2008

“Our whole social system here has been destroyed” (Rt. Rev. Charles Jenkins, Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, speaking about Rev. Bill Terry’s murder board).

$1 billion justice center not realistic

Monday, August 25th, 2008

New Orleans justice complex called unrealistic
by Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune
Monday August 25, 2008, 9:23 PM

In uncommonly frank comments last week in which Douglas O’Dell called the Nagin administration’s vision of recovery impractical and “ethereal, ” the federal recovery coordinator singled out plans for a massive $1 billion justice complex that calls for building new jails, courts and law enforcement facilities over several years.

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