By Matt Davis, The Lens staff writer | A rookie New Orleans cop has resigned after allegedly brandishing two guns during an off-duty altercation at a gas station on Friday, city officials said Monday. Swanier New Orleans Police Department Officer Devyn D. Swanier was booked with aggravated assault in the early morning hours Saturday, according […]
Daily Archives: April 11, 2011
Posted inGovernment & Politics
A week before hospital groundbreaking, Vitter amps up opposition in letter to HUD
U.S. Sen. David Vitter has long criticized the state’s shaky financing plans to replace Charity Hospital with a new $1.2 billion Louisiana State University-owned teaching hospital. Today the Louisiana Republican made that concern clear in a letter to U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan urging him not to put taxpayers on the hook […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City's Office of Neighborhood Engagement not yet ready to engage with everyone
By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | Mayor Mitch Landrieu wants some advice from neighborhood leaders on how he should set up his newly created Office of Neighborhood Engagement – but he only wants it from selected leaders, with no press coverage allowed. Tonight’s invitation-only event is dubbed as a Neighborhood Engagement Charrette. The […]
Posted inOpinion
Don't go off the grid with second hospital
By Maggie Tishman and Jack Davis, guest opinion writers | For centuries, New Orleans’s largely intact street grid has fostered transportation efficiency, connectivity and the success of our compact and walkable neighborhoods. However, the grid is threatened by the $2.5-billion hospital complexes planned for Mid-City. The first of the two, the Veterans Affairs Hospital, has […]