Ariella Cohen
Police brutality activists protest mayor's selection for chief

Police-brutality activists rallied on the steps of City Hall today calling for the removal of New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas.
“We want a completely new landscape free of people who came up in a NOPD culture of abuse…

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Rosy view of blight meets Central City’s bleak reality

Reginika Tasso snorted at news that the number of vacant houses in New Orleans dropped over the past year by nearly 9,000 to a new post-Katrina low of 50,100.  “Really…” the Central City-raised Harvey resident intoned. Did they count the…

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Rosy view of blight meets Central City's bleak reality

Reginika Tasso snorted at news that the number of vacant houses in New Orleans dropped over the past year by nearly 9,000 to a new post-Katrina low of 50,100.  “Really…” the Central City-raised Harvey resident intoned. Did they count the…

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Activists plan Thursday protest against NOPD chief Serpas

New Orleans celebrated the inauguration of Mayor Mitch Landrieu with a jubilant second line last Monday. Smiling wide and swaying from the hips, the new mayor danced through downtown New Orleans. Rebirth Brass Band played. Men in suits and ladies…

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Serpas’ daughter is connected to suspended NOPD officer

The adult daughter of a finalist for New Orleans police chief shares a house with one of the NOPD officers who was present at a Mid-City bar when off-duty colleagues allegedly beat a group of city transit workers, an event that is the subject of a FBI civil rights investigation.

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Serpas' daughter is connected to suspended NOPD officer

The adult daughter of a finalist for New Orleans police chief shares a house with one of the NOPD officers who was present at a Mid-City bar when off-duty colleagues allegedly beat a group of city transit workers, an event that is the subject of a FBI civil rights investigation.

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Landrieu administration to take data-driven approach

Mayor Mitch Landrieu plans to boost efficiency at City Hall with a data-driven performance-management system modeled after one pioneered in Baltimore, his top appointee said Tuesday.
Landrieu’s quantitative approach to governing, something long advocated by open-government advocates, came out during…

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Like spring training, hope springs eternal on inauguration day

On the first day of New Orleans’ first white mayor in 32 years, City Hall felt remarkably free of the racial tension that for the past five years has become as much of a fixture in the building as the…

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Recovery contractor wants to work more closely with city

The CEO of the company managing most of New Orleans’ 600 recovery projects has recommended to Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu that he speed up rebuilding by breaking down walls between city bureaucrats and contracted project managers particularly in the area of…

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Landrieu team giving boot to top Nagin administrators

With barely more than a week left before taking office, Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu sent letters Thursday notifying top officials in the administration of Mayor Ray Nagin that their services would no longer be needed come May 3.
Transition team spokesman…

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