[pabianice]

...In early January, the windows were still broken in Hadley’s office. Looters had targeted the university; among the items stolen was a pocket watch that a student and her parents had given Hadley as a gift. Before Katrina, the University of New Orleans enrolled 17,000 students, making it the largest university in the city. The student body consisted mostly of commuters. Around 12,000 enrolled for the spring semester. In April the university asked its governing board to declare a state of financial emergency that would allow layoffs of tenured professors for the first time in the school’s history. To Hadley, the news was heartbreaking...

The writer completely misses the point: ultra-liberal New Orleans simply collapsed as it waited for Big Government to first save it and then to repair it.

[Red Badger]

He opposes those who argue that the city, because of its geography, should simply fade to black.

[Red Badger]

It will simply fade to blue.............

[gumboyaya]

If and when the streetcars run on St.Charles/Carrolton and Jindal is gov there is still hope.

[RSmithOpt]

All the chocolate melted and 'cause no one wanted to actually plug in the frig, or get the stuff to make more candy. The sack of sugar were too heavy, ya know.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Massachusetts?

[HIDEK6]

...and all this because a weakening category 4 hurricane had the misfortune to come ashore in a locale where the Democrats had been responsible for levee maintenance since Rover was a pup.

[daviddennis]

Well, in his case as a government employee I would say he wouldn't have much choice but to wait for government to fix the problem.

I think I would have stuck it out. I can't stand the cold, so better a destroyed New Orleans than a non-destroyed Massachusetts.

At least that's how I think :-).

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