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| La. Voters OK Consolidating Levee Boards | |
| 2006-10-01 | |
| NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana voters on Saturday approved consolidating the New Orleans area's levee boards, the generations-old agencies whose politically appointed members took criticism after Hurricane Katrina for failing to maintain the area's levees and floodwalls. The constitutional amendment - passing with about 80 percent of the vote - will combine 10 southeast Louisiana boards into two - one for each bank of the Mississippi River - and require that their members have expertise in engineering, geology and hydrology. After Katrina breached New Orleans' levees last August, the existing boards were criticized as disjointed, full of cronyism and patronage, and badly lacking in technical knowledge.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 About time. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-10-01 18:33 |
| #4 "failure to maintain" is a valid criticism, but the Army Corps staff and the contractors who never embedded the sheetpiling to correct depths should all be in prison |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-01 14:08 |
| #3 I recall a N'Orl'ns' politician being asked why city cops were paid so low. His reply, "They make it up in bribes." Can't say I support rebuilding the city as it was. Maintaining sections that are 20 feet below sea level makes no sense at all. Those were also the high crime/shoot-whitey-on-sight wards that I avoided like the plague. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-01 11:50 |
| #2 You mean they can't appoint their family, friends and neighbors to do-nothing jobs which only come to light every 50 years when their patronage rewards welfare jobs are exposed by mother nature? What is this world coming to? Maybe Bob in Zimbabwe has a job awaiting you now. Dear Mr. _______, I know you don't know me, but let me explain..... |
| Posted by: Sneresing Uleaper6513 2006-10-01 09:30 |
| #1 Put all the cash in one big pot? Shit, that'll make skimming harder, man, what were you clowns thinking? Oh, it was the voters... Uh, nevermind... |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-01 03:58 |