[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Good for you being back in the City. What part of the city do you live?

I have been there five or six times since the storm and it is frightening how slow the progress is and how counterproductive the city gov has been.

But yes, the Browns appear to be a product of the welfare state and Orleans Parish schools. Bad news either way.

[Grenada]

I live in the warehouse district and we have had a pretty bad time. We are lucky that our apartment and possesions were fine, but something nasty is occuring. We were evicted from our place as of November 30th due to the "state of emergency." Now, we found another apartment in our same building at a 50% increase with ZERO options. Housing is a huge problem. So the whole 3 month episode has cost us over $10,000, that we did NOT have(new security deposit, hotels, gas and food, ect,) At the town hall meeting today, I found out that almost EVERYONE was kicked out of their apartments in the same manner, in order to jack up everyone's rent.