Federal Aid Finally Reaches New Orleans

usatoday.com — More than $700 million worth of public projects will start to emerge in this embattled city this year, as New Orleans' recovery enters one of its busiest stages since the devastating floods of Hurricane Katrina, the city's mayor said. Construction on jails, police and fire stations, playgrounds, theaters and mixed-income housing developments — all battered by the 2005 floods — has started or will start this year, as public federal funds finally were unleashed from bureaucratic tangles, Mayor Ray Nagin said. Nagin, 52, has been the public face of Katrina's devastation since the floods destroyed 80% of his city.

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