A plan to spend $4.2 million in federal disaster-recovery grants on Woldenberg Park in the French Quarter has provoked the ire of community activists who say the money should be spent in areas still suffering from Hurricane Katrina.
The City Council this morning called for changes in the management of the computer system at Civil District Court, following the disastrous computer crash that has crippled the city’s real-estate market since late October.
The City Council plans to vote tomorrow on an ordinance to double residential garbage pick-up fees to $24, even though Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration still has not even started drafting new contracts with two companies to actually haul the city’s trash.
I love to handicap college football games by carefully analyzing the merits of each team’s mascots, and factoring in ominous current events that might foretoken disaster for a particular football squad.
Six nightclubs came under scrutiny at this month’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board meeting Tuesday.
From Hornets to Glenn Beck to sand berms, here are various follow-ups to previous items.
As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show.
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority should be developing houses not demolishing them, said two City Council members this week, as they considered a demolition request from the agency and a potential new owner.
A top Republican in the U.S. Senate is vowing to enhance a tax bill passed Wednesday to ensure that New Orleans housing developers don’t lose Gulf Opportunity Zone low-income housing tax credits.
