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  • Down to the wire in New Orleans(New Orleans Election)

    04/17/2006 11:49:46 AM PDT · by catholicfreeper · 6 replies · 545+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 04/17/07 | Huma Zaidi and Elizabeth Wilner
    It sounds like a game of SimCity. You're running for mayor nearly eight months after a hurricane caused devastating flooding that wiped out your city's infrastructure; shut down schools and hospitals; severly crippled its main sources of revenue, tourism and the port; endangered its unique culture and traditions; exposed rifts in race and class of a magnitude rarely seen before by any American metropolis; killed hundreds of residents and caused the long-term evacuation of tens of thousands of others. As the leader of the effort to reconstruct this city, you would receive aid from the federal government -- but you...