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Author: Karen Gadbois

About Karen Gadbois
Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led to guilty pleas in federal court. Her work attracted some of journalism's highest honors, including a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and a gold medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. She can be reached at (504) 606-6013.

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March 15, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Strike up the band: Bacchanal scores parking waiver, as permit tussle nears resolution

March 13, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Would-be bidder miffed as NORA snatches 7th Ward property from the auction block

March 8, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

City seeks to demolish cemetery cottages, replace them with concrete block structures

February 28, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

City to Planning Commish: We've got this one

February 14, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Demolition request comes from odd source

February 13, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Despite recent practices, NOPD silent on arrest record of Samaritan killed in Algiers

January 26, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

City unveils new system for public notices; text, email messages are options

January 20, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Tulane quest to rezone 'peripheral' properties dominates Master Plan hearing

January 12, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Council approves earlier Quarter curfew over objections saying it encourages profiling

January 5, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

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