Monday, February 05, 2007

New Orleans, Godforsaken?

The other America

By ADAM NOSSITER and CHRISTOPHER DREW
The New York Times

Filed 2.5.07

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 4 — When the body was brought out, the two little boys did not stop chewing their sticky blue candy or swigging from their pop bottles. The 18-year-old mother wheeling her baby came to watch, and the teenager with the spiky hair and the bulky duffle coat was laughing up on the worn stoop.

(Click & Read on courtsey of The New York Times)

Photo Captions & Credits: "Linda Holmes, second from right, is comforted at the scene of her son's killing in the Iberville housing project"by Lee Celano for The New York Times

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You would think that after 40 years of a Democratic Run City, in a Democratic Run State there would be none of these problems.
Maybe we need to throw more $$$ at them and see how that works.
P.S. I lived in N.O, 1989-1994.

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