Katrina, one year later

WE ask the Hardball question here: Are New Orleans and its former citizens better off today than a year after the catastophe? What's your guess? I wonder whether New Orleans will ever be rebuilt and I think many others think the same thing. But no one in government has the courage to make the decision except by ignoring the City and its former residents, they make the decision in silence, hoping the problems and the memories will fade away.