AtD -- How Will You Read It?

[David Morris]

Thanks for the good wishes.

It's hard to encapsulate where this city's at right now.  We're not
really "back" yet, and probably won't be for another few years (but
come as tourists - all that's back in full swing, and we need your
money).  Bureaucracy has been hell on anyone trying to get rebuilding
money already slated for us.  And though for three months after
Katrina there were no murders in New Orleans, it has now come back in
spades. Us with our understaffed police force and teenage hoodlums
proving more resilient in returning that anyone anticipated.  But we
all love New Orleans too much to want to live anywhere else.

For many reasons I thank God that the midterm elections delivered the
Democratic takeover of congress, and in my heart I know that Katrina
was the beginning of the end, the tipping point, for the Bush
presidency.  So the storm did have a silver lining.  And while Bush
liked to get in front of cameras and say how committed he was to our
recover, every time it meant Federal dollars, or even letting us have
our rightful percentage of Gulf oil & gas royalties, he was against
us.  Our motto here since Katrina has been "Make Levees, Not War," and
we expect that the Democrats will deliver on that sentiment.

David Morris

On 11/27/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Friends have been making record digging runs to NOLA about every other week this past month now, keep coming back only to regret wghat they left behind, so
> ...
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> At any rate, sounds like the city's going again ...
>
> Did just post that NYT/IHT review, by the way ...
>
> --- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > At this point we're like a neighborhood fixture out there every evening.