If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smokescreen.

If the legislators are listening to their constituents and their conscience, they will vote for a single levee board of qualified professionals. If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smoke screen.

It demonstrates the politically elite will fight to obstruct reform in order to protect their backroom property tax deals.

The question isn't whether New Orleans is going to take a huge hit in terms of job loss. The real question is where we'll have to rebuild from once we know where we've bottomed out.

This was a man-made disaster caused by the failure of the federal government to properly construct the levees and caused by the failure of the local guys to notice.

(Voters) wish there were an election right now.