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The New Orleans city attorney has denied a public-records request from The Lens that seeks every contract that leaves the Law Office to be signed by a contractor, on the same day it leaves the office. The state’s public-records law requires that records be made immediately available if they’re not in active use. The goal […]

Whether or not you’ve been following the insider chatter about the lack of oversight of Disaster Community Development Block Grant money, Ariella Cohen’s piece at The Lens and with WVUE is a must read. The Nagin administration has chosen to put the disaster-recovery money in the operating budget, essentially giving the council less control over […]

A reader comments on the Perry campaign: “As a young white pseudo-lib I attended a couple of weakly organized events publicized only on Facebook. I donated money and offered to volunteer. This began some 9 months ago. I hesitate to make the comparison — in part because I find Perry’s invocation of Obama a little […]

Mayoral hopeful Troy Henry has stressed his executive experience to differentiate himself from his rivals. Indeed, Troy Henry has spent his career climbing the ranks in the private sector. He spent more than a decade at IBM before joining Enron, where he was promoted to vice president of Enron Energy Services in January 2001. Enron […]

A federal judge in Mississippi this month rejected a complaint from housing advocates  who were upset that millions of dollars marked for poor residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina had been diverted to rebuild a coastal port. And given the persistent – but unproven – contention that Louisiana has enough low-income housing, it’s not inconceivable that […]