Aug. 9, 2007--Ida Belle Joshua worked hard to take care of her two-story house in the Lower Ninth Ward, even after Hurrican Katrina flooded it up to the roof and exiled her 150 miles away. She spent $5000 to have the brick house gutted, $275 to clean it and then went to City Hall on July 5 to make sure 2611 Forstall St. wasn't on a list of derelict properties here facing demolition because of storm damage. Two citiy employees assured her that the house was safe, she says. Two days later ... it had been knocked down by the city... WSJ A1
--Mr. Reiss said he and other business leaders will no longer tolerate living in a dangerous city with bad schools and substandard municipal services. "Those who want to see this citiy rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way ... " The power elite of NOLA ... insist the remade city won't simply restore the old order. --WSJ, A12 Sept. 12, 2005 [sic]
--According to the WASHINGTON POST, a state legislator in Baton fouge had just told a group of lobbyists in Baton Rouge, "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." --James Lee Burke, THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN (2007) p. 83
--The guys who let people drown for two days are going to pour billions into rebuilding poor neighborhods. Ibid., 122
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