After all, today is December 4, 2006 -- some 15 months after Katrina hit New Orleans.

More than 15 months after Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday tapped a leading regional planner and disaster recovery expert to head a new city recovery office.

Edward J. Blakely, who helped coordinate recovery planning in California after two natural disasters and in New York City after Sept. 11, has been chosen to lead what is expected to be a five-person office and to serve as the leader for marshaling a recovery process that critics have derided as too slow.

``We think he's the best in the world to help us through this recovery,'' Nagin said at a news conference.

Well, now we know why New Orleans is still a ruin -- Ray Nagin was trying to find someone with a clue to help him rebuild.

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