A fresh start

I'll have to give the president his due - his plans for the reconstruction of New Orleans are promising (at least in the outset) and it was refreshing to see a man who prides himself on never being wrong actually come out and say 'I screwed up.' Granted, I still believe the latter occurred solely because of political reasons - especially considering the administration has spent much of the past week-and-a-half attempting to smear the local and state officials - but as I said earlier, better late than never.

Hopefully the new New Orleans will be a much more secure city, and that its reconstruction efforts will include attempts to restore much of the lost wetlands that used to soak up the storm surge. It also would be refreshing to see much of the new housing - particularly low-income housing - built on higher ground rather than the lowest levels of the city.