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September 5, 2006 at 6:31 am New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the man who apologized for his “chocolate city” comments and who exhibited a complete failure of leadership and competence during Hurricane Katrina, has now had to apologize for remarks made in reference to Ground Zero in New York. As we near the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Nagin, in his vast judgment, criticized New York for not yet fixing the “hole in the ground” — his reference to the site at which the World Trade Center once stood. As reported in the Washington Times,...

Nagin Attracts Media But Few InvestorsPromotional event mostly ignored NEW YORK -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin certainly attracted the notice of the press in the nation's media capital during his short stay in New York. It's hard to say, though, how many of the people he was really after -- big investors in the country's financial hub -- paid much attention to what New Orleans officials billed as the first stop on an as-yet uncharted "economic development tour." Few of the visitors to the two-day affair, held at Tribeca Cinemas in the trendy downtown neighborhood that used to be...