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Once again the New Orleans LJ community generates a discussion all should read. the following post touches upon thoughts we all have had, whether we will admit it or not.

neworleans: Stay or Go or Return?

Almost a year after hurricane Katrina, I think my family and I have finally decided to move on from New Orleans. Life here isn’t easy and it seems to get harder by the day. We’ve been back since the day we were allowed back in the city and have given it our best shot. Sadly, we have children to think about and we don’t have any family ties to the city so we think the best move would be to leave. This isn’t the city I fell in love with when I was younger, to me it’s not even a recognizable shell of it’s old self.

I was curious how everyone else was feeling on the state of New Orleans and it’s future. If you are here, do you plan on staying? Are you ready to move elsewhere? If you haven’t yet moved back, do you think you might? This is the hardest decision we’ve ever faced and hearing other’s prospectives always helps make things a little clearer.

Discussion- neworleans: Stay or Go or Return? Read the comments and opinions.

Thanks to the lovely and talented Maitri for bringing this up in the comments. The issue of interviews being impeded in FEMA trailer parks has sparked a lively discussion on the New Orleans Livejournal Community. Check it out, there is even a cop weighing in on the subject.
Katrina victims “not allowed” to talk to media

No,We Are Not OK. In ten weeks we will have the One Year Anniversary of Katrina, yet we are still finding corpses with disturbing regularity.

Katrina victim found in New Orleans house

An autopsy found that the man had drowned. He was the 23rd apparent storm victim found in New Orleans since the forensic center took over body recovery from federal search teams in March, Gagliano said. (Emphasis mine -Loki)

Thats just since they took over in March. This March, the month that ended two months ago. Does this sound like America to you?

EDIT: Thanks to Alan at ThinkNOLA for pointing out that my caffeinne/nicotine deprivation  had led me to mis-comment on the date emphasized above. It is now corrected in the main text of the post.

Suspect Device | Greg Peters This cartoon pretty much sums up the Vitty Cent PR fiasco that resulted from allowing the doofus to speak his so called mind.

Wi-Fi Networking News: EarthLink Gets New Orleans
New Orleans taps EarthLink for citywide Wi-Fi: The company will unwire New Orleans, its fifth city, across a 15-square-mile area offer free service at 300 Kpbs and paid service at 1 Mbps.