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    • THE MAGIC WAND MENTALITY – Immediately following Katrina's enormously devastating landfall along the Mississippi Gulf coast, plenty of fancy statements relating to “bigger and better” were made by government officials of all sorts. Those statements were providing hope of a fair and timely recovery and rebuilding process to ALL who had lost so much. Those statements were projected in bold official voices for all to hear. Where are those voices now?

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    • THE MAGIC WAND MENTALITY – Immediately following Katrina's enormously devastating landfall along the Mississippi Gulf coast, plenty of fancy statements relating to “bigger and better” were made by government officials of all sorts. Those statements were providing hope of a fair and timely recovery and rebuilding process to ALL who had lost so much. Those statements were projected in bold official voices for all to hear. Where are those voices now?

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    • THE MAGIC WAND MENTALITY – Immediately following Katrina's enormously devastating landfall along the Mississippi Gulf coast, plenty of fancy statements relating to “bigger and better” were made by government officials of all sorts. Those statements were providing hope of a fair and timely recovery and rebuilding process to ALL who had lost so much. Those statements were projected in bold official voices for all to hear. Where are those voices now?

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