Despite Superfund status, government and private investors continue to dabble in doomed Desire neighborhood.
Tag: recovery
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations
Walmart coming to Gentilly with the aid of a federal grant
Despite statements from three city officials that Walmart would build in Gentilly with no government assistance, the retailer is like to benefit from as $2.7 million in federal grants.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations, Land Use
'Reinventing' New Orleans? Landrieu team steers dwindling recovery dollars to humdrum projects
Despite Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s lofty rhetoric about reinventing the New Orleans, most discretionary federal grant money is going toward rebuilding streets and buildings.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Landrieu wants video to promote recovery
By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | The New Orleans landscape is dotted with signs boasting about “our recovery in progress,” an effort by former Mayor Ray Nagin’s administration to tout his successes. His successor is taking that idea even further, seeking proposals to spend tax dollars to photograph and videotape the recovery so […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations, Land Use
At K+5, recovery plan becoming clearer; Lens maps mayor-backed projects
Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s list of 100 sure-fire projects as welcome news. But there’s a long list of projects to which Landrieu hasn’t committed.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Environment, Government & Politics, Schools
Successful post-Katrina programs in jeopardy of losing federal backing
The Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic relies on post-Katrina federal grants to operate. Those grants are due to expire this fall putting the clinic in jeopardy Without a continuation of post-Katrina grants for education, health care and improving the criminal justice system, New Orleans risks losing gains made since the storm, says a report released […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Face to face with Ray Nagin. Register now!
Catching up with former Mayor Ray Nagin on the fifth anniversary of Katrina is now possible if you sign up for this free online speaker series. “From Recovery to Revival, A Conversation with Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and ‘Katrina General’ Russell Honore” will take place Sept. 1, online. An installment of Keppler Speakers‘ “Face to Face […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Everything old is new again, and vice versa
” Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages […]
Posted inEnvironment, Government & Politics
Landrieu ditches Nagin plan
Call it the off-target plan. Mayor Mitch Landrieu is moving away from predecessor Ray Nagin’s recovery strategy of pushing projects in 17 “target zones” across the city. “Frankly, it was a previous administration’s plan,” mayoral spokesman Ryan Berni said. Berni acknowledged today that Landrieu has yet to finish his own recovery plan. His administration is […]
Posted inEnvironment
Landrieu fills position for environmental affairs after all
Though Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration initially was vague on whether it would continue to have an Office of Environmental Affairs during the nation’s largest oil disaster, the position has now been filled. Charles Allen, formerly at Tulane University in the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, started running the office two weeks ago. Allen is a […]