From WSJopinion: The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina offers a lesson for the coronavirus crisis: Once government occupies civil society, it tends to overstay its welcome, writes Emily Chamlee-Wright of TheIHS.
As governors sort out plans for when and how to ease coronavirus-induced restrictions, it’s business and community leaders beyond the statehouses who will actually make it happen. My fellow researchers and I saw something similar after Hurricane Katrina.
On Aug. 29, 2005, a breach in the Industrial Canal levee submerged St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans. Six weeks later, Doris Voitier, superintendent of the parish’s public schools, pledged that the district would have a place for any student who signed up at the...
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