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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.

Planners OK erasure of Mid-City street grid to create gigantic med-center 'super block'

April 13, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

City's Office of Neighborhood Engagement not yet ready to engage with everyone

April 11, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

War on Blight more courteous but seems to lack coordination

April 6, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Council ponders whether recycling carts are too big; French Quarter may get service

March 23, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Recycling carts, service and costs top agenda for City Council committee meeting

March 22, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Animal House where pledges were scalded is targeted by Tulane for cop substation

March 21, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

City Council zaps 'aggressive' panhandlers in New Orleans business district

March 17, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

After six years on the Road Home, some things haven't changed, residents charge

March 10, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Looking to buy a Road Home house at auction? What if it’s one you already own?

March 2, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

City to buy recycling carts, which will be delivered to customers only by request

February 28, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

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