Washington Post on Biloxi's recovery

Most telling photo I could find
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Biloxi's Recovery Shows Divide - washingtonpost.com:

"...in the wrecked and darkened working-class neighborhoods just blocks from the waterfront glitter, those lights cast their colorful glare over an apocalyptic vision of empty lots and scattered trailers that is as forlorn as anywhere in Katrina's strike zone. 'At night, you can see the casino lights up in the sky,' Shirley Salik, 72, a former housekeeper at one of the casinos, said this month while standing outside her FEMA camper with her two dogs. 'But that's another world.' More than two years after the storm, the highly touted recovery of the Mississippi coast remains a starkly divided phenomenon."

Biloxi is the hardest place to understand of anywhere I have ever been. On one hand I know the casinos halp economy, but it makes me sick to see the recovery in some areas while only a little distance away, it is awful. While this picture is really old now, it sums up my thoughts better than anything. It is the Imperial Palace in E. Biloxi.