An independent review

“The City has agreed to let residents who do not want their houses torn down to have an opportunity to speak.”:http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2007/12/city_and_homeowners_agree_to_d.html

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.