Posted on 09/03/2005 6:39:25 AM PDT by ChadGore
In this short video (Real Media 34k stream). . at the very begining . . the 2nd sceen, shows yet another dozen unused blanco buses!
The print story is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4210646.stm
Under the first image is a link that says "VIDEO Aid Finally arrives".
The URI for the RV Video is here:
Do you mind if I add this BBC image to yours ?
bttt
I will do a google earth search of NO and see of I can find the bus yard for you.
It's No Blue States work. I'm just circulating the image.
I listened for about a 1/2 hr and don't recall her ever taking a single caller!! I kept waiting for them to give out a call-in number, but never did hear it. Do they have the integrity to entertain calls? From FReepers?
Hmmm... do it detect a new indoor sport?
I've just about had it with all this BS.
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
On January 12, 2004, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco became the first woman to serve as governor of Louisiana. In her long, distinguished career, Governor Blanco has served the people with a vision of creating a new Louisiana, filled with hope and opportunity for all citizens.
As Governor, her top priorities include: providing affordable, accessible healthcare, improving the state’s education system, and creating a strong and vibrant economy.
In her inaugural address, Governor Blanco outlined her priorities as governor: “We face important challenges in this new century: expanding our economy and creating quality jobs; building an effective health care system; improving our roads and highways; rebuilding our coastline; protecting our farmers; and ensuring that all our citizens, no matter their age, have superior educational opportunities.”
Governor Blanco believes that Louisiana’s challenges can only be met “if we have the courage and wisdom to pursue a new and different path.” That, she says, means striking “a hopeful chord -- one that unites our people in lifting up all Louisiana families; one that cherishes our children, protects our environment, and creates new economic opportunity for all our citizens.”
Before serving in the state’s top office, Governor Blanco completed two terms as Lieutenant Governor. As the state’s second-highest official, she supervised the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Under her leadership, tourism in Louisiana increased by 41 percent. This growth led to a $2.5 billion increase in the tourism industry’s economic contribution to the state and the creation of 121,000 new tourism-related jobs.
First elected lieutenant governor in 1995, Governor Blanco was overwhelmingly re-elected to her second term in 1999, winning 80 percent of the vote.
Didn't the genius Boy Mayor say somewhere that school buses weren't good enough ... that he wanted Greyhounds?
If you send me a freepmail with your email addy I will gladly send you a Google Earth screen cap.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Students return to class Thursday in a school system in such turmoil that no one is sure how many employees it has, the new budget is millions of dollars out of balance, and the buildings are old and deteriorating.
A once-popular superintendent was ousted in April, in part because he could not get a handle on the longstanding financial mess. A turnaround management firm was brought in to clean up the finances in June, at the insistence of state officials and over the objections of the school board president.
Part of the turnaround company's task in getting ready for the first day of school has been an employee-by-employee audit to make sure the right people are getting paid the right amounts and that health insurance benefits are going only to the qualified.
"We've had to start over in some cases and recreate data from scratch," said Sajan George, an executive of New York-based Alvarez & Marsal. The rate of payroll errors when he arrived was around 20 percent, he said...
...Last spring, when the district appeared close to missing its payroll, the federal government said $70 million of its money couldn't be accounted for....
Just a couple of weeks ago, they were in turmoil, already... They probably had little, or no, gas in the buses! The article says they have more than 120 schools in NO, so if each school only had ten buses (they probably had more), then that would be well over 1000!
Thanks yall, if anyone considers it good enough to pass
around I would consider it a compliment. Feel Free.
Although I hate getting political this soon, when he bashed Bush for not doing more when Nagin himself dropped the ball..well he deserves it.
What ?!?! really ?! Where ?
Missed the Greyhound comment, did hear the report on one about lack of bathrooms on school buses.
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