LA Times: Again: No going back to New Orleans

Somehow, I find the Saturday LA Times to be the best issue of the week. Maybe because they don't think anyone reads it and sneak in more interesting and even--dare I say it--gossipy stories.

Anyhoo, one not so gossipy but baldly truthful story started on the front page and discussed how residents of N.O., displaced to other communities, are really preferring where they've landed. Better schools, safer environment, cleaner, better jobs.

These are working-poor folks who were unswervingly loyal to N.O. despite the horrible schools, murder rate (up to 300 homocides were expected this year), and piss-poor job market.

I wish Katrina never happened, but a lot of these people are discovering a better way of life inadvertently. I wonder what this says about how the city was run in the first place? If only Katrina could have only swept out corruption and poor leadership, and left good things in its wake for its citizens.

Anyway...it was interesting.