Charity Hospital and Public Records

Charity Hospital



Photography By Paula Burch-Celentano

I attended the Senate Hearing on the “LSU Hospital situation”:http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-10/120650891063160.xml&coll=1 yesterday

LSU  Senate Hearing

Sarah Elise Lewis was there with her camera and “caught the testimony of Brad Ott”:http://citizenscityhall.com/2008/03/26/the-power-of-public-records-brad-ott-discusses-the-lsuva-proposal-in-new-orleans/

Citizens have been told many times that we will make the right decisions if we have the information, the “City”:http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20080218/ai_n24313365 and State don’t seem to agree with this concept. We may “lead the Recovery”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/neighbors_are_key_to_recovery.html but we seem to be leading it in the dark.

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.