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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.

Animal control may go to the dogs without more money

October 29, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
Fresh off a financing fight that still leaves the city without the full services to round up stray animals and address related problems, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s budget calls for further cuts to the contract that puts private dogcatchers on the street.

Non-profit unable to honor commitment turning blight into low-income housing

October 28, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
Galilee Housing Initiative and Community Development Corporation has failed to renovate even one of the more than 70 properties given to it by the city.

Citizen involement plan to get worked over by bureaucracy

October 22, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
The City Council decided this week that it’s ready to start a process to plan for formal citizen participation – a process that citizens actually have been working toward for years.

Citizen-participation plan gets chilly reception from council

October 13, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Not a news flash: Most of Quarter near a T-shirt shop

October 4, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

New T-shirt shops could be banned from French Quarter

September 30, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Garden District Assocation criticizes citizen-input plan

September 14, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Landrieu cool to money for Citizen Participation Project

August 25, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

City posts contracts for Joe Brown, riverfront park work

August 24, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Face to face with Ray Nagin. Register now!

August 4, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

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