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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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June 23, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Wilhelm Schnitzel Fallacy (?) cited by tea shop proprietor seeking 'opportunity to fail'

June 15, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Crackdown on Lower Garden District blight outs cop with dual homestead exemptions

June 8, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Carnage at daughter's birthday does not make dad a foe of bar where it happened

May 18, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Tulane erases scandal-plagued frat house; cop station to rise on cleared Broadway lot

May 10, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

City Hall jacks luxury car to settle tax debt owed by French Quarter bar owner

May 4, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

The glass is half empty for recycling: New city program will not take bottles or jars

May 2, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Rock 'n' Bowl owner gets permission to demolish pair of houses for parking lots

April 29, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

When demolition becomes an act of cultural vandalism

April 21, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Corporate logo along Simon Bolivar worth peanuts to New Orleans

April 14, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

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