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While New Orleans needs money, at this point it desperately needs volunteers to help the hundreds of thousands of people who don't have the resources to get carpenters and contractors to fix their houses. They need motivated college students.

The biggest reason ISPs are not quickly upgrading their dial networks is that they want to save money,

There is money for the west sewer plant. The key point is that everything is on target for us to meet the Oct. 4 predicted date to award a contract to construct the west plant. There's a whole series of hoops that we have to jump through and yesterday was one of that series. We've cleared that hoop and we're still on target.

The census is costing us right at $1 million, and all of that money we will recover, I believe, three for one in four years.

It's a delicate process. In this arena, you've got guys with a lot of money and huge egos.