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From reporter David Streitfeld, in the LA Times --
New Orleans Starts Out on the Road to Recovery:
...businesspeople generally were making their way through police and military checkpoints, flashing identification and business-related documents. There was a tie-up on the River Road at the city's western boundary, as the usual convoys of emergency, police and military vehicles, utility trucks and heavy-equipment carriers were joined by a new stream of sedans and SUVs driven by business owners trying to get a look at how their shops and offices fared under the assault of Hurricane Katrina.
Downtown hotels already have been abuzz for several days with cleanup and construction crews. The city made them a priority because officials involved in the reconstruction need a place to stay. A couple of bars in the French Quarter have stayed open serving warm beer almost since the hurricane winds subsided, manned by bartenders who stayed put during the storm.
Heavy industry also got an early start on recovery. Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Avondale shipyard on the opposite bank of the Mississippi got back to work earlier this week, and dockworkers at the Port of New Orleans are scheduled to unload their first post-hurricane container ship — carrying coffee — this morning. Norfolk Southern Corp. restored freight rail service to New Orleans after completing repairs on five miles of washed-out rails on the Lake Pontchartrain railroad bridge. In addition, the first commercial flight landed at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
Speculators Rushing In as the Water Recedes:
The real estate agent has $10 million in the bank, wired by an investor who has instructed her to scoop up houses — any houses. "Flooding no problem," Farris' newspaper ads advise.
I think New Orleans is going to be succesfully rebuilt.
This will assist in the completion of a 14-mile-long border fence ending on the west at the Pacific Ocean.
Howard Dean uses the occasion of Hurrican Katrina to attack Republicans. So does Al Gore.
When leading Dems use occasions of pain and suffering to seek to inflict addtional pain and suffering on fellow Americans, they make things worse rather than better. They kick America when it's down.
The Democrat party deserves better leadership.
