According to The Times Picayune in New Orleans, the New York Times has just assigned a full-time reporter to New Orleans. I find the timing of this very interesting. The position has been vacant since April, and the New York Times says it wants to cover the slow recovery of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
I am interested in this article because I have children who own a house in New Orleans and were there (although evacuated) during Katrina. I have driven through the lower ninth ward and seen the X's on the doors with the information on the searches of the houses. It is amazing how much damage was done to the city by hurricane Katrina.
I was impressed at how fast the Zoo and the Aquarium opened up after Katrina and at how fast the French Market and downtown areas came back. I was in New Orleans just after the Aquarium reopened in October and then in May of the following year. The difference was amazing, but when I talked to people at the French Market, they told me how difficult it was to find a place to stay and to find people to work in the restaurants.
My hope is that New Orleans will again be the great cultural city it has always been. It is also my hope that the New York TImes will be fair in its reporting of the accomplishments of the Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Hopefully, putting a reporter in New Orleans is not an excuse for trying to destroy Governor Jindal as they have tried to destroy ex-Governor Palin of Alaska.
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