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I have been following the administrative adjudication process for many of our blighted and abandoned properties here in New Orleans, on March 31 2009 the property at 1600 S. Claiborne owned by FRIW CHKN LLC. was on the docket. This property is located at the corner of Claiborne and Martin Luther King and was a […]

Today marks the first day of the hearings on the Council budget: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Budget Overview by Chief Administrative Officer – Tax Levy – Capital Budget – Revenue Budget – Panel Discussion: Judicial & Parochial Offices, Part 1: Municipal Court Traffic Court 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Panel Discussion: Judicial […]

photo credit: “Mark Folse”:http://toulousestreet.wordpress.com/ SHAMARR ALLEN STOOGES BRASS BAND FREE BOWLING $15 …and all proceeds benefit the peace efforts of SilenceIsViolence and the Social Aid and Pleasure Club Task Force! Please join us on Sunday, November 8 after the Saints game to celebrate community-based peace efforts at the beautiful new Rock-N-Bowl! Learn more about all […]

The role that Ed Blakely played in the role of the demolition of the Rosedale Baptist Church was an interesting one. According to one of the members of the Church the former Recovery Czar had admonished the Church with the statement that God was angry at them for not repairing the church in a more […]

This past Monday and Tuesday the case of The Rosedale Baptist Church vs C. Ray Nagin was heard in federal court in front of the Honorable “Judge Martin Feldman”:http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Martin_Feldman. The 6 person jury, oddly none of which reside in Orleans Parish heard 2 days of testimony about the post Gustav demolition of the Rosedale Baptist […]

Well not really. It is actually City Budget Time. CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS ON 2010 PROPOSED BUDGET The Council will hold hearings on the Mayor’s proposed 2010 budget, beginning on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. in the City Council Chamber. Hearing dates for individual departments and agencies are: CITY COUNCIL BUDGET HEARING SCHEDULE -2010 […]

Many of you have heard of “Stay Local”:http://staylocal.org/biz/ a great initiative that enables you to find a multitude of goods and services close to home. Stay Local isn’t just a local directory it is a database of all our local home grown businesses as well as a project of the Urban Conservancy which celebrates and […]

The Times-Picayune is a daily newspaper Established as The Picayune in 1837, the paper’s initial price was one picayune A picayune was a Spanish coin worth half a Spanish real. Its name derives from the French language picaillon, which is itself from the Provencall language picaioun, meaning “small coin.” By extension,picayune can mean “trivial” or […]

This week famous foreclosure “LaLaurie is adding a new chapter in it’s place in “history.”:http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Delphine_LaLaurie Nicholas Cage’s French Quarter home is on the foreclosure chopping block. I guess New Orleans is through bucking the trends, that or Nick Cage needs to make more movies. A recent article in “The Salisbury Journal”:www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/uk_national_entertainment/4630872.Cage_s_unease_in_The_Big_Easy/?ref=rss began this way: Nicolas […]