Focused On

Do Not Demolish

by Karen Gadbois
Mrs Sartin

The only thing that saved her house from being demolished was the dumpster in front..the dumpster that was there because she was fixing her house.

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.

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