Katrina Coverage

From this:
It looks like Mississippi is getting left out when it comes to hurricane rebuilding contracts...
Adams Home Center in Yazoo City thought it had two sub-contracts to supply 450 portable classrooms to the Gulf Coast but an Alaskan Management Company pulled the rug out from under them.
"We were ready and capable of doing this project and it was taken away from us," said Adams.
Adams said the Akima Corporation, which has no experience supplying classrooms, was going to do a $24 million deal with Kent Adams' Yazoo City business to buy and set up the portables.
But Akima, out of Alaska, cut him out of the deal but took the contracts to his suppliers in Georgia and California...
...Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson said similar scenarios are playing out across the state and is asking the Federal Department of Homeland Security to investigate...
The Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg set up the deal with Akima and said because of the time delays involved in fulfilling contracts with several companies, it felt it would be quicker to use the Alaskan company to put portables in the Gulf South.