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Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations

A New Source

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 […]

Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

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 […]

Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

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. […]

Posted inSquandered Heritage Vintage

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/ […]