President Barack Obama and several high-ranking officials in his administration, including new FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, have vowed to correct FEMA's performance. The results so far are quite encouraging. Money seems to be flowing in a more common sensical way. FEMA remains a four letter word in New Orleans pending a whole lot more good news.

Even the City is on the move. In the latest reshuffling of his administration's often-reorganized bureaucracy, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has announced that the 2-year-old Office of Recovery and Development Administration, the far-reaching agency formerly headed by Ed Blakely, is being dissolved. It makes sense since Blakely has been gone since May.