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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - With no income or tax base, St. Bernard Parish can pay its workers for another month before its coffers run dry and those trying to reconstruct water, sewage and other services are laid off.
"We have enough funds to last us about two more paydays — that's 30 days — and then we'll have to let our people go," said Parish President Henry "Junior" Rodriguez.
The problems of that devastated parish are mirrored across south Louisiana as local governments struggle to pay police, firefighters and other emergency workers with bank accounts draining rapidly after two hurricanes.
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