There was a great turnout today from all over New Orleans who all spoke in opposition to the Archdiocese plan to demolish Annunciation Church. The application was denied.

This weeks NCDC agenda contains an application to demolish “The Annunciation Church”:http://www.neworleanschurches.com/annunciation/annunciation.htm My guess is they want to demolish the Church along with the rectory and meeting hall to build senior housing. Which in and of itself may be a needed service, but with the abundance of vacant lots in the City it would seem […]

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For the last few months I have been working on a project to create an online data driven investigative news source. I have been incubating this under the umbrella of “The New Orleans Institute”:http://www.theneworleansinstitute.org/ and we have been making some steady progress to that end. Last week we were chosen by the “Zeitoun Foundation”:http://www.zeitounfoundation.org/ to […]

One of the most traumatic events of my life was being diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2005. Being uninsured and throwing Katrina into the mix was pretty stressful and I am grateful that I lived to tell the tale. This piece “says it best”:http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/01/stand-with-breast-cancer-survivors-of-north-carolina-ask-kay-hagan-to-support-a-public-plan/ *Please call* Senator Landrieu’s D.C. office line: (202)224-5824 New […]

“Part 1”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2009/06/16/bread-crumbs-to-follow/ ..Or how many days do you have to clean up the mess you left behind after the City demolished the houses you have neglected for years? I think when I die the addresses of these 2 houses will be the last words uttered, like “Rosebud”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane, but instead it will be Belfast.. Here is […]

Here is his church as “advertised”:http://www.greaterbiblewaychurch.org/ on his website Well maybe not actually as advertised. They don’t mention that it is a sandlot. But that does not deter Rev. Toris Young, who has been convicted of “identity theft and fraud”:http://blog.nola.com/jamesgill/2009/03/cao_critic_has_own_worries.html perhaps the fraud was actually raising funds to build a church that does not exist. […]

Here is a photo of this house as it stood 2 years ago. Somehow the owners managed to avoid fines for not maintaining it, or cleaning it out and the end result is this Makes you wonder…. The mystery of how this family has been able to continue to perpetrate blight was made a little […]

This house has been the subject of interest from the neighborhood for almost 4 years. The owners are also responsible for the mess on the first block of Apple St.. They are, repeat offenders. 2 days ago the house collapsed. The owners had tried to obtain a FEMA funded demolition, sometimes called Free Demo, free […]