TakeZone

I'm glad this is getting some national press. Real estate in Tuscaloosa is already kind of weird and there is a condo craze going on right now, but when I first heard about Tuscaloosa County getting hardship funding from Hurricane Katrina I was pretty shocked. There was not comparable damage this far north and the word is that the reason Tuscaloosa got funding was because one of Alabama's senators (Richard Shelby) is a University of Alabama alumnus and it was a chance to get some money for one of his pet projects. I know that this money could have been better used by many people who are still without housing, money, or are still waiting for insurance claims to go through down on the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and certainly Louisiana. The guilt of taking this money would be too much for me.....