Today’s press conference at the site of the Lafitte Public Housing project was filled with many elected officials and MC’d by Wayne Woods from HANO.

No mention was made of Dwayne Muhammad the Director of the Voucher program at HANO who is now “on leave” for allegedly using the voucher program to pay his own rent. “Link to the WWL story”:http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl082609cbsection8.11d097c4a.html

God was not in attendance but was mentioned too many times to count. The tent under which the press event was held felt more like a revival than an information session.

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...