Desperate - USA - Hard-up New Orleans puts flood buses on Ebay
New York,NY,USA -Telegraph.co.uk (UK), by Harry Mount -30 Mar 2006: -- The school board of New Orleans is so desperate for money that it is selling its flooded, unsalvageable buses on Ebay... The school board plans to put one bus up for sale this week and, if it achieves a good price, it will offer the other 258 ruined buses for sale. Only 23 of the city's 117 schools have reopened since the hurricane and the board faces a £63 million shortfall, a quarter of its annual operating budget... (Picture: http://www.lawatchdog.com/NewOrleansSchoolBusses.jpg)
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