Katrina victims take on tour operators

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press A tour bus turns a corner Tuesday in the Lower 9th Ward section of New Orleans. Residents and the City of New Orleans may be pushing back against tour companies ushering out-of-towners into the Lower 9th Ward, the neighborhood made famous when floodwalls and levees failed in 2005, ...

NEW ORLEANS—Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city’s Lower 9th Ward, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed a wall of water that pushed homes off foundations and stranded residents on rooftops when th...

Published: 10/07/2012