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• Hurricane Katrina Victims Win Big

  
  EUR This N That | Urban Black News Blog — Authority: 509
  Hurricane Katrina victims may be getting a new flood, but this time in dollars and cents.  According to a CNN report, a federal judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs stating that “the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to maintain a shipping channel led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane ...
  3 days ago

• Evolution or Devolution of Political Discourse?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
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  4 days ago

• New Orleans Mayor Praises Katrina Liability Ruling

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 639
  From CNN: Calling the ruling “huge,” New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday reacted to a federal judge finding the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failure to maintain a shipping channel led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Nagin said he hopes the court decision will “open up the ...
  5 days ago

• DA’s Proposed Cut is 15 Percent

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 580
  Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro says the mayor’s proposed 2010 budget slashes 15 percent from the $6 million the city allocated to the DA’s office is 2009.  According to Cannizzaro, Nagin removed $575,000 from DA funding — in keeping with Nagin’s 1 0 percent across-the-board cut of all city ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mr. Meffert’s Bad Day

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 580
  BY ALLEN JOHNSON JR. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten today announced a 63-count indictment against Gregory Meffert, the city’s first chief technology officer — raising questions about how much has changed and how much has stayed the same at City Hall under outgoing Mayor Ray Nagin. Inaugurated as a “reform” ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Administration Run Amok

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 580
  Things have come full circle on Ray Nagin. In 2002, he cast himself as the anti-Morial, the squeaky-clean “businessman” who was going to sweep out the corruption of the previous administration. After Friday’s 63-count corruption indictment against former city technology chief Greg Meffert — once Nagin’s top ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nagin says emergency fund needs fattening

  
  The CityBusiness Blog — Authority: 423
  By Deon Roberts, Online Editor Here’s some alarming news to come out of the city’s ongoing budgeting process. Mayor Nagin says the city has $5.2 million in its emergency fund, which is about $20 million short of what it needs to have on hand. “If we do not have a $25 to $30 million fund balance set aside ...
  3 weeks ago

• Greg Meffert: “The Times-Picayune is the biggest bully in town.”

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 580
  Greg Meffert sounds drained. It’s been about 24 hours since a jury found the city’s former technology chief to be partially liable (along with Dell Inc. and two firms owned by city vendor Mark St. Pierre) in a civil trial filed by plaintiffs Southern Electronics Supply Inc. and Active Solutions LLC. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• N.O. could become city of higher fees

  
  The CityBusiness Blog — Authority: 423
  By Deon Roberts, Online Editor Mayor Ray Nagin, who leaves office next year, gave his final budget presentation to the City Council today, and it doesn’t look good. As the city faces a nearly $70 million deficit in 2010, Nagin is suggesting not only ways to cut city spending, such as furloughs for city workers, ...
  4 weeks ago

• HUD Secretary Jackson: P.O.S.

  
  High Strangeness — Authority: 400
  Long live the Yes Men! Read this slap in the face to the American people and learn well from it...------------------------------------------------------------------"In the wake of Katrina, HUD has collaborated with large private developers in tearing down public housing, despite a dire need for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Council Members Want Public Input

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 580
  Starting tonight at 7 p.m. in the New Orleans City Council Chambers , Councilwomen Shelley Midura and Stacy Head are asking for the public’s participation in the upcoming city budget hearings. The councilmembers are holding the joint town hall meeting not just for residents from their respective districts, but for ...
  4 weeks ago

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