Katrina's ongoing toll

Along with a group of members of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, I spent much of last week touring the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Folks along the Mississippi and Louisiana coast are worried. They fear an "out of sight, out of mind" notion is infecting the rest of the nation. Six months after the hurricane, they worry that most Americans are moving on in the mistaken belief that the worst is behind us.

Having toured New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I can assure you that the recovery is nowhere near complete. One newspaper editor in New Orleans told me that he believed it what be five years before the Times-Picayune didn't have some mention of the Aug. 29 hurricane and its horrible aftermath.

Click here for a link to photos taken in and above New Orleans. You can read more here, here and here.