[lbo-talk] NO: feds'll pay only for Cat 3

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 21 07:40:15 PST 2005


[via The Note]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/20/AR2005112001167.html>

In a profile of Donald Powell, the federal coordinator of the Gulf Coast rebuilding project, the Washington Post's Hsu and O'Hara Note that he disagreed with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco last week about whether the government would rebuild the levees to withstand a Category 3 or a Category 5 hurricane. "The commitment is to build the levees back to a three . . . an then to study the five."



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