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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | Posted by The Editor
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- Iberville redevelopment quietly gets underway
- Time to strike while the Bullock and wetlands are hot
- At K+5, recovery plan becoming clearer; Lens maps mayor-backed projects
- Landrieu cool to money for Citizen Participation Project
- City posts contracts for Joe Brown, riverfront park work
- Forget wars, oil and economy; we’ve got a mosque alert!
- Katrina shorthand fatigue
- Don’t waste a good disaster: Spill could help The Hoff
- City begins new era with approval of master plan
- Master plan moving forward with no clear source of funding for citizen participation element
- Fresh-food, investment plan may be in list of 100 projects
- Can Who Dats get a Gleek on?
- The Small Print
- The nation’s sacrifice zone, part II
- Successful post-Katrina programs in jeopardy of losing federal backing
- Incoming Spill Claims Czar Will Drop BP’s Contractor
- Eastern New Orleans & the Lower Ninth Ward demand a full accounting of recovery spending. So do we.
- Face to face with Ray Nagin. Register now!
- Everything old is new again, and vice versa
- Pro Publica: BP Leaves Many Damage Claims Waiting in Limbo
- The nation’s sacrifice zone, part I
- Have you filed a claim with BP? If the answer is yes, please help us illuminate the process.
- Simple answers to simple questions
- Baton Rouge wins big in race for federal stimulus cash
- Jail advisory group will not open meetings to the public, administration says
- Vitter candidacy scarred by PTSD, among other disorders.
- As offshore oil war continues, quieter pollution battles being fought on land
- Landrieu depending on furlough-averse City Council to balance this year’s budget
- Lens: Covering charter schools
- Franklin High principal to get evaluated by board annually
- Obama moratorium may be result of being twice bitten
- Landrieu’s group studying jail meets in private; no plans to take comments from public
- Gulf Coast states lag behind other states in getting contracts for oil disaster work
- Officer connected to Serpas’ daughter totaled NOPD cruiser while driving drunk
- Reduced! Fancy sink included
- NOPD might need consultant for password management
- Landrieu tightens take-home car policy
- Legislators seek transparency from BP but feel snubbed
- “We don’t ground all planes” analogy crashes and burns
- Landrieu ditches Nagin plan
- Landrieu fills position for environmental affairs after all
- Imagineering an oil disaster
- Old Earhart plan causes new concerns among neighbors about appropriateness
- The Small Print
- Prison expansion on hold until advisory group speaks out
- Twilight for Gulf Coast
- Juveniles face sexual abuse in state prisons, report says
- Missing money … still missing
- City is missing $17 million from business loan program
- BP bankruptcy is a real fear
- Direct AeroMexico flights from New Orleans to Mexico City have been cancelled
- Can Mabus save us?
- Jindal needs to engage in more than a war of words
- More Senate candidates courting Tea’d off voters
- The Small Print
- Who dat say they’d pay mo’ for a cool driver’s license?
- Barton’s not the only one using “shakedown” language
- What’s in a blowout’s name?
- Another man-made disaster, another presidential speech
- Come to the Anadarko side: We might have liability limits
- Despite commandeering boats, officials losing island oil battle in Barataria Bay
- Q&A with Landrieu staffers
- …and the rig you rode in on
- Scenes from the spill: Grand Isle
- Oil companies tax our coast; it’s time we tax them back
- The Small Print
- City gets reprieve to spend balance of grant money
- Landrieu letting sun shine on city contracting process
- Alternative for dispersants to break up oil hampered by politics and bureaucracy
- Without bolder action on spill, greatness to slip from America
- Council increases transparency with subcontractor ordinance
- The Small Print
- Defend Plaquemines
- Theft from school may cost school its independence
- Blame it on the porn
- School embezzler senteneced to five years in federal pen
- Shaking a fist at Monkeyfister
- Baby you can drive my campaign (beep beep, yeah)
- Scenes of frustration
- Despite AG’s position, Corps says no decision made on creating dredged islands
- Landrieu administration not saying who gets taxpayer-paid take-home cars, credit cards
- Five years after Katrina, the return of disaster capitalism?
- Boats moored by the BP oil spill, a long-threatened community of black fishers fears for its future
- Gulf oil spill: Too big to stop- or even watch on a live feed
- Nungesser says Corps has rejected state’s plea for dredged oil barriers
- Clearer picture emerges with release of complete Moreno fatal-crash report from 2002
- City tries to address homeowner’s elevation hassles
- Serpas says daughter’s beau won’t get special treatement
- Methodist deadline extended
- Charter school conversion leaves some parents anxious, some hopeful
- Farewell Lens and, soon, farewell New Orleans
- Protest draws few activists
- Landrieu’s environmental office on hold during oil spill
- Worth thousands of words
- Effectiveness of BP training may be lost in translation
- The I.G. wants YOU!
- Uneasy living in Lafitte
- Rosy view of blight meets Central City’s bleak reality
- With new app, oil spill can cast its shadow over any city
- If you’re reading this, you already missed BP job training
- BP oil cleanup jobs not the stimulus Vietnamese hoped for
- Oil’s effects on wetlands could be dire
- Activists plan Thursday protest against NOPD chief Serpas
- Ronal Serpas is Landrieu’s choice; big changes are coming to the NOPD
- Serpas’ daughter is connected to suspended NOPD officer
- With Landrieu’s invitation, federal intervention in NOPD is now a certainty
- Nagin’s wisdom now for hire on the speaking circuit
- Landrieu administration to take data-driven approach
- Coalition wants intervention from feds in NOPD; Landrieu position is still unclear
- Bill Ayers seen pouring barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico!
- Like spring training, hope springs eternal on inauguration day
- BP still handing out contracts struck down by federal court
- National discussion on spill needs to focus on coast
- Waiting is the easy part
- Federal judge says BP can’t force local workers to sign waivers of liability
- Ronald Davis or Ronal Serpas
- Committee advances bill to increase budget oversight of state housing largesse
- Confronting the big issues in Baton Rouge (eye roll)
- New AIDS agency propped up with federal allocations
- Finally cooking with gas: NOPD Superintendent candidates and an emerging fiscal crisis
- Arizona’s totalitarian immigration law not that different from proposals here
- Recovery contractor wants to work more closely with city
- Landrieu team giving boot to top Nagin administrators
- Speaker Tucker seeks more oversight of budgets
- City’s share of VA hospital revealed: $107.4 million
- LaBruzzo’s war on welfare continues with drug test
- Green groups press council members for promises
- City’s double standard hangs up dozens of Road Home sales and renovations
- Bill to punish law clinics could unexpectedly hit medical care
- Let’s get high! (On the latest marijuana prohibition news)
- State releases long-awaited lead cleanup money, but city takes no action for daycares
- Trouble in the moonlighting
- City is $8 million behind in payments to contractor MWH
- Friday Cop News Drop
- I hate to name-drop, but Nagin dropped my name!
- Louisiana House District 93: Feel the excitement!
- City Council suprised to learn of revolver money used for proposed medical district
- What’s Landrieu’s view of federal invovlement in NOPD?
- Possible contract-selection shenanigans could shift AIDS patients away from providers
- Justice Department confirms consideration of consent decree lawsuit against NOPD
- Amid gunfire, Landrieu throws the weakest brick of all
- If you worked at City Hall, you’d be home now
- Landrieu: Those who quit chief search were throwing bricks, not building bridges
- What do you want to ask Landrieu about chief search?
- Council president seeks oversight for economic development loans
- Lucrative stimulus contract for green jobs in New Orleans goes to group with least to offer
- It ain’t hot potato: Landrieu must clutch chief search
- IG releases annual report wrapping up tough year
- Facebook rhetoric reveals mindset of beleaguered NOPD officers and supporters
- City has $9 million more for economic development
- Landrieu transition team: We’re not required to follow state sunshine laws
- Adorable: Mitch Landrieu’s first little transparency flap
- State and city not making weatherization goals
- Mysterious “recovery board” made key decision on project
- PANO: Just Desserts
- Police chief search leader: Open-records laws don’t apply
- When a greenway becomes a roller coaster
- Troubled complex to be auctioned, a victim of Katrina
- Go big or go home!
- Like Zulu, nightclub developer may get loan from city
- That old-mayor odor
- City planners deny plan for borrow pit in the east
- GOP locks keys in the car; Louisiana Dems lose keys
- Healthcare wins!
- ‘Just’ compensation difficult to define in Detroit
- City releases HUD report, invites public comments
- City makes $50k grant to support abstinence education
- Decrepit strip mall financed by taxpayer money avoids wrecking ball — for now
- Zulu VP facing foreclosure on property near krewe HQ
- More anti-abortion Catholics back healthcare bill
- Congressman Cao still a ‘no,’ vote hinges on abortion flap
- “Balance this city”
- Senate action helps chances for New Orleans housing
- Comments underscore sad reality of broken NOPD
- Despite initial confusion, gift to Zulu is alive and well
- Pivotal period for Cao as final health care vote nears
- The Lens interviews Spike Lee
- Federal consent decrees have reformed police departments
- Contractor being paid for work done by city employees
- What price crunk?
- City permits system unplugged because of unpaid bills
- Not a good week for cop
- Taxpayers donate property for homeless only to see it stagnate under non-profit
- The mayor doesn’t oversee education but should get involved anyway
- Contractor for recovery oversight is overcharging, says ousted city official
- Jordan not exonerated just because Anderson might be; Cannizzaro won’t yield
- See for yourself: Zulu, others vie for city grant money
- Strip mall that won taxpayer money faces code problems
- $800,000 award from city could end up hurting Zulu
- Police station not ‘evicted,’ developer says
- ‘Misplaced’ videotape matches defense team narrative
- Rose report is awfully cute, also plain awful
- “Credibility” is not just a BS political hurdle
- New evidence should mean new trial, says man convicted in 2006 Central City masscre
- Will any NOPD veteran have the credibility to lead?
- Donation boosts Web site and city staff, not citizen-participation efforts
- Louisiana hit hard, but not among the “hardest hit”
- HUD: HANO would “halt” if consultants were phased out
- $800,000 to Zulu raises many questions
- The streetcar is nice, but we’ve missed the train
- Streetcar expansion earned through public cooperation
- Judge approves pact requiring city, School Board improve juvenile hall
- City running months behind in paying architects
- Catching up: Reports and ruminations from The Lens
- Distracted or disillusioned?
- The toxic numbers game
- What IS going on at City Hall?
- Mitch’s Mandate
- Rebate for new appliances comes with a financial catch
- Why is the MSM ignoring the New Orleans Saints?
- Rollover on the road
- Less than 5% of certain recovery money spent, administration says
- Persuasion gives way to mobilization
- Enjoy the new smooth roads while they last
- Suddenly, everyone is a liberal democrat
- Unused city money dating to the 1980s raises questions, ire.
- Nagin withdraws request on Chevron Building
- Q&A: Getting down and dirty with soil contamination
- Tough times for Tom Arnold
- Council looks to hamstring Nagin on Chevron Building
- Toxic-soil cleanup slowed by dense bureaucracy
- Let’s hope the second time is a charm
- I have evidence, I’m told
- John Georges: “I am you”
- Shadow Government capitulates in the face of me?
- A delay in finding out about the recovery delays
- Will Gressett upset it?
- Most consequential race flying under radar
- That’s what he said
- Rep. Maxine Waters threatens to pull federal funding
- Nagin on Nagin
- No worse fate
- What is the ‘shadow government?’
- Faking out the feds
- O’Keefe: Neither pimp nor journalist
- Louisiana Liddys dial-a-felony
- What did I know, and when did I know it?
- What’s so great about a national search?
- Martin Wine Cellar wants to demolish Uptown buildings
- Affidavit for undercover film maker
- One voice: A man-in-the-office-building survey on the mayoral election
- Who’s more distracted?
- City hasn’t said what recovery projects are delayed by council’s questions
- New Orleans politicians look to bask in glow of popular, and not so popular, athletes
- 2 Louisiana companies buck intent of Supreme Court ruling
- Council delays $600 million spending plan
- Forgiveness as policy
- Supreme Court ruling permits more direct corporate influence on elections
- Race to the punch line: The home stretch
- City denies public-records request for pending contracts
- Will Nagin steamroll City Council on disaster recovery spending?
- Troy Henry’s “cheesy” tribute to MLK
- NORA’s $30 million award not quite for blight
- Thoughts on the Perry campaign, continued
- Troy Henry at Enron
- Nagin administration moving millions in recovery money without public input
- Judge sympathetic, but dismisses complaint about housing money shifted to port
- “Economic development” grants leave empty storefronts
- Building trust and keeping track
- The politics of affordable housing: are solutions a problem?
- Hey, who turned the lights off?
- James Perry campaign a success or a failure?
- Soros: Economic Rights Versus Human Rights
- Nearly $2 million sent to Louisiana for Water Cleanup
- Video: Soros Discusses Criminal Justice
- Video: Soros Discusses Growing Civic Engagement
- Billionaire George Soros Increasing Involvement in New Orleans
- What the #$*! does James Perry Know?
- The Federal Flood
- My Fake Life
- What is a Promise Without Justice?
- EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Addresses Brownfields
- BGR President: “Inaccurate” to Say too Much Affordable Housing
- The Public Cost of Eviction
- Lens Transcript: GNO Data Center Deputy Director Allison Plyer
- Lens Transcript: Lousiana Housing Chief Milton Bailey
- The Bottom Line on Affordable Housing
- A New Source
- Mission
- Local Purpose, National Relevance
- Death of the Daily
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