Rebuilding Mississippi's Gulf Coast

What the state of Mississippi has learned in one year of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.

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August 22, 2006, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The rebuilding of Mississippi's Gulf Coast has received far less media attention than New Orleans' reconstruction. Recovery has been hard, and although there has been progress, much remains to be done. But Mississippi appears to have done more things right than wrong.

The chief lesson of its rebuilding experience is that if you have limited funds and other resources, simply spending money on the myriad problems of disaster recovery is not enough. Spending should be guided by research and analysis, not guesswork and politics."

FULL STORY: Mississippi Comeback

Saturday, August 19, 2006 in The Los Angeles Times

Community / Economic Development Infrastructure Mississippi

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