New Orleans Recovery Director, Ed Blakely speaks out about Recovery Plans

Um...Slimy Mac-P smells money in Louisiana. Watch out recovery plan; Slimy Mac-P is figuring out how his family can dip into the cookie jar. Can a pending federal prison sentence stop him?

Beginning early next year, New Orleans police officers should begin to move out of the cramped trailers they've been using since Hurricane Katrina and into more comfortable surroundings, recovery director Ed Blakely said Monday.


Buoyed by $200 million in state-issued bonds earmarked for repairs to the city's storm-damaged infrastructure, Blakely said he hopes to reopen police headquarters on Broad Street around Jan. 1 and get the rank-and-file into permanent buildings by next spring.