Jay Lapeyre
Jay Lapeyre
board choose driving fragment listening politics qualified single smoke usual vote
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.
hit huge job orleans question rebuild terms whether
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.