Key Katrina aid goes toward football condos

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- With large swaths of the Gulf Coast still in ruins from Hurricane Katrina, rich federal tax breaks designed to spur rebuilding are flowing hundreds of miles inland to investors who are buying up luxury condos near the University of Alabama's football stadium.

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