Blight Bonds

We had written here earlier about Blight Bonds. A project that Ed Blakley was touting as a way to raise revenue.

It appears now that it is off the “table”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117877476868770.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

This is the follow up “article”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-7/117886750764080.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

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Karen Gadbois

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led to guilty pleas in federal court. Her work attracted some of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She can be reached at (504) 606-6013.