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- Frolic: First sentence should have read: “Having been a trustee for many years of a non-profit educational...
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- 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