The Lens will be an investigative news source and daily blog. Data-driven news stories, thoroughly researched and engagingly presented, will be complemented by daily blogs that cut to the quick. We will look behind the smoke and mirrors of big-city governance and also shine a light on key issues in communities too often ignored by […]
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Mission
To produce original, responsible investigative journalism to make institutional powers in New Orleans and the surrounding region more accountable to public interest.
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Wheatley and Lafon
Please go to “Regional Modernism”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2009/09/save-wheatley-school.html for details
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Jesuit: Bringing Down the House{es}
In late 2006 Jesuit applied to demolish 3 houses on S Solomon and Banks. I wrote about those demolitions at the time. “link”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2006/09/03/426-28-ssolomon-street-mid-city/ And this one which they used as an office. Eventually they were granted permission to demolish these homes but were told they needed to present a plan to create a parking lot […]
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Claiborne Ave. It's a drive thru World.
Today’s NCDC meeting included 4 structures which were on the agenda to be demolished for a CVS Pharmacy. One of the structures caught my attention for a number of reasons one of which is it’s past use as a synagogue. y Chevra Thilim Synagogue was built in June 1948 at South Claiborne Avenue and Jena […]
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Hoffman School
“link”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2009/09/hoffman-elementary-threatened.html Hoffman School is no longer threatened but approved for demolition. The RSD said they would look for some money to rebuild. Check your sofa cushions for spare change. I can’t imagine a school will ever be rebuilt there in my lifetime.
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char·i·ty …* 1 : benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity
“We are now treating medicine as an industrial product.” Listening to this “podcast”:http://www.pbs.org/moyers/rss/media/BMJ-1320.mp3 that line stuck out as just a pretty apt definition of what is wrong with our attitude towards the LSU/VA hospital. The lack of planning and transparency is on a par with the lack of transparency when it comes to health care. […]
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Where were you?
These Anniversary days seem to not get easier. Reading the piece in the “NYT”:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30doctors.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp about Memorial Hospital about the difficult, tragic, heartbreaking decisions made there only served to remind me of how fragile we humans are. Here I am sometime in 2006, trying to figure out how to put all the pieces back together. “Mark”:http://wetbankguide.blogspot.com/ […]
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And I thought the devil was in the details…
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 […]