Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city?
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a different kind of risk
STAND ON the rim of the grassy levees and you can see New Orleans’s dilemma: rising water on one side, a sinking city on the other. The people who call this place home have learned to live with water. Storms punctuate time as birthdays and holidays do in other parts of America.
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