I recommend reading Sandy Rosenthal’s latest column in full. Here are a few excerpts to get you started: It was a very bad week for the Army Corps of Engineers.First, Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse, former chief oversight official of contracts for [Army Corps of Engineers] operations in Iraq received nearly a million dollar settlement after she […]
Daily Archives: August 9, 2011
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Residents asked to lay out budget priorities
By Ariella Cohen, The Lens staff writer | Mayor Mitch Landrieu tonight will host the first in a series of community meetings to learn what residents’ priorities are for the 2012 budget, which is already being drafted. Billed as a part of the city’s effort to spend taxpayer money more efficiently, the meetings represent a […]