Saturday, October 15, 2005

'$11 Million a Day Spent on Hotels for Storm Relief'

article by ERIC LIPTON here.

 

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 - Straining to meet President Bush's mid-October deadline to clear out shelters, the federal government has moved hundreds of thousands of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina into hotel rooms at a cost of about $11 million a night, a strategy local officials and some members of Congress criticize as incoherent and wasteful.

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