Last month Mr. Gettridge came to the NCDC meeting to hear the fate of “Sister Gertrude Morgan’s House”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/11/03/sister-gertrude-morgan/ Mr. Gettridge had purchased her home after she passed away many years ago. The house had floated off it’s piers after the levees broke. And Mr. Gettridge wanted to save some of the roof tiles before it […]

This morning in court extra time was obtained for an elderly man who is facing a city of new orleans house demolition. He is disabled, uses a walker, and will have no place to go if the city demolishes his home, which is what the city is seeking. There are serious legal problems with the […]

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Never has there been a more hollow statement. “link”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=32300 Then couple that “with this”:http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=32336 and we can just forget about any decent development.

I was listening to NPR this morning and heard this interview with “John Patrick Shanley”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98142901. It made me wonder if the forces behind the demolition of a New Orleans neighborhood have any doubt. At another point in the interview he say’s “certainty is a closed door” So there it is on the “front page of […]

Just wondering..It is coming down pretty steadily here.

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