The devastating Katrina event was eight years ago, yet Mississippi still hasn’t spent nearly $1 billion in recovery money.
Critics also complain that some projects are far from the Katrina strike zone and don’t seem to have a direct connection to recovery from the hurricane, while others have failed to take root or are not meeting promises of creating jobs.
One of the projects — a parking garage in Starkville near the Mississippi State University football stadium — is more than 200 miles from Katrina’s landfall.
Wasteful and inappropriate to say the least.
