This past Monday and Tuesday the case of The Rosedale Baptist Church vs C. Ray Nagin was heard in federal court in front of the Honorable “Judge Martin Feldman”:http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Martin_Feldman. The 6 person jury, oddly none of which reside in Orleans Parish heard 2 days of testimony about the post Gustav demolition of the Rosedale Baptist […]

Well not really. It is actually City Budget Time. CITY COUNCIL HEARINGS ON 2010 PROPOSED BUDGET The Council will hold hearings on the Mayor’s proposed 2010 budget, beginning on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. in the City Council Chamber. Hearing dates for individual departments and agencies are: CITY COUNCIL BUDGET HEARING SCHEDULE -2010 […]

Many of you have heard of “Stay Local”:http://staylocal.org/biz/ a great initiative that enables you to find a multitude of goods and services close to home. Stay Local isn’t just a local directory it is a database of all our local home grown businesses as well as a project of the Urban Conservancy which celebrates and […]

The Times-Picayune is a daily newspaperEstablished as The Picayune in 1837, the paper’s initial price was one picayuneA picayune was a Spanish coin worth half a Spanish real. Its name derives from the French language picaillon, which is itself from the Provencall language picaioun, meaning “small coin.” By extension,picayune can mean “trivial” or “of little […]

This week famous foreclosure “LaLaurie is adding a new chapter in it’s place in “history.”:http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Delphine_LaLaurie Nicholas Cage’s French Quarter home is on the foreclosure chopping block. I guess New Orleans is through bucking the trends, that or Nick Cage needs to make more movies. A recent article in “The Salisbury Journal”:www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/uk_national_entertainment/4630872.Cage_s_unease_in_The_Big_Easy/?ref=rss began this way: Nicolas […]

Please go to “Regional Modernism”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2009/09/save-wheatley-school.html for details

In late 2006 Jesuit applied to demolish 3 houses on S Solomon and Banks. I wrote about those demolitions at the time. “link”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2006/09/03/426-28-ssolomon-street-mid-city/ And this one which they used as an office. Eventually they were granted permission to demolish these homes but were told they needed to present a plan to create a parking lot […]

Today’s NCDC meeting included 4 structures which were on the agenda to be demolished for a CVS Pharmacy. One of the structures caught my attention for a number of reasons one of which is it’s past use as a synagogue. y Chevra Thilim Synagogue was built in June 1948 at South Claiborne Avenue and Jena […]

Thanks to Francine and Sergio

“link”:http://www.regional-modernism.com/2009/09/hoffman-elementary-threatened.html Hoffman School is no longer threatened but approved for demolition. The RSD said they would look for some money to rebuild. Check your sofa cushions for spare change. I can’t imagine a school will ever be rebuilt there in my lifetime.