This house was demolished yesterday..

1423 Annette
1423 Annette

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken)

Mencken must have talking about the Mayor when he wrote this. “This morning the TP”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/teardowns_now_need_consent.html ran an article about the Mayor and his Executive Order.

The logic behind this is simply stunning. The City HAS ALWAYS has the authority to demolish houses that are in Imminent Danger of Collapse. What they want now is to bypass a commitee which has been recently put in place that his Administration does not like.

What happens when he does not like something else??

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...