Gambit Weekly

Gambit Weekly graciously honored me with “The New Orleanian of the Year Award.”:http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A48768

I appreciate the fact that they recognize the hard work of citizens who have been at the forefront of this recovery.

Saturday afternoon I took a ride over to “David’s House”:http://davidshouse.wordpress.com/ and got a chance to see this wonderful painting by “Karen Ocker”:http://karenockerdesign.com/

It depicts David, holding the sidewalk in front of the house, the sidewalk the City would like to “banish.”:http://blog.nola.com/updates/2009/01/mothers_colorful_memorial_to_h.html

David and his sidewalk

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.