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Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations

Dejean kept Gert Town board in the dark, ex-chairman of secretive non-profit contends

By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | The embattled director of a Gert Town community fund has been as reluctant to share information with her board as with the community she is meant to serve, according to a former board chairman. An investigative report published last week by The Lens noted neighborhood concern that […]

Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion

Likening BP’s blowout to an airline crash still doesn’t fly

Last July, I took issue with a dubious airline analogy promoted by foes of the offshore drilling moratorium during BP’s Macondo deepwater oil gusher of 2011. Big Oil apologists repeated the analogy ad nauseam: “We don’t ground all airplanes after one crash, do we?” They hoped to portray the Obama administration’s response to the blowout […]