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• Mr. Meffert’s Bad Day

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 589
  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 days ago

• Early Edition: Get in the Game

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 589
  Monday morning at 9:30 a.m., the New Orleans City Council will begin its budget hearings in council chambers. The public is encouraged to attend and participate in the hearings, which will be used in part to determine how the city is going to make up a $68 million deficit. No easy task, and in order to get the ...
  2 days ago

• An Administration Run Amok

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 589
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Ed Blakely, red tape, and "locking people in cages"

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 538
  Please read what Karen posted yesterday morning. Post Gustav Ed Blakely did his best to show a strong show of force, and in some ways it would seem that Gustav was Blakely’s perfect storm. One that did little damage but emptied out the City of pesky residents. In fact one of the first times I met Dr. Blakely he ...
  3 days ago

• In two-way race, Green beating Communist in Ohio

  
  Independent Political Report — Authority: 570
  In a rare two-way race between two members of a third party, a member of the Green Party is beating out a member of the Communist Party for a seat on the Cleveland City Council.  Both are also members of the Democratic Party, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich endorsed the Communist.  With 17% of precincts reporting , ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 589
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• N.O. could become city of higher fees

  
  The CityBusiness Blog — Authority: 425
  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, ...
  1 week ago

• HUD Secretary Jackson: P.O.S.

  
  High Strangeness — Authority: 99
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• India must achieve permanent reconciliation in J-K: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Srinagar, Oct 29 (ANI): Pushing for peace talks in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the Centre will extend full support to the State Government in achieving its goal of development and peace.Addressing a press conference here, Dr. Singh said: “My appeal for peace dialogue will be ...
  1 week ago

• In New Orleans, Mayoral Race Still Lacks Heft

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  John Georges, who has indicated interest in being mayor of New Orleans, greeted supporters at a campaign fundraiser last week.
  1 week ago

• Council Members Want Public Input

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 589
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• STORIES OF THE DAY (Thursday, October 22nd)

  
  Louisiana Political News Service — Authority: 127
  . . Obama plays pivotal role in Senate race between incumbent Vitter, Melancon THE DEAD PELICAN: Vitter Opponents Attempt to Interject Race Into Campaign Obama wows fans in New Orleans: "May have missed the real recovery story" Chemical plant bill advances in House (Melancon Votes Yes, Scalise No) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another one for the pile

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 538
  "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, theres no question about it" -- George W Bush (2001) "One of the biggest weaknesses we had during Hurricane Katrina is it wasnt clear who was the top authority." "The president and the governor were going back and forth. . . . In Cuba you dont have that problem. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nagin heading to Cuba, past trips to China and Australia cost tax-payers $28,770+

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 487
  Times-Picayune, “ Mayor Ray Nagin’s trip to China and Australia cost city taxpayers more than $28,770 ” by Michelle Krupa As Mayor Ray Nagin and a gaggle of New Orleans officials headed to Cuba on Friday for a weeklong fact-finding trip about disaster preparedness, new details emerged about the mayor’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your Marxist Moron of the Day

  
  The Daley Gator — Authority: 631
  Via PatAustin we get the lastest asshat act from Mayor Ray NaginNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is on a field trip to Cuba, on a State Department sanctioned expedition, in order to learn about disaster preparedness.One might think that after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Ray Nagin would know just about all there is to know ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ray Nagin Visits Cuba to Learn About Disaster Preparedness

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 623
  New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is on a field trip to Cuba, on a State Department sanctioned expedition, in order to learn about disaster preparedness. One might think that after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Ray Nagin would know just about all there is to know about how to prepare for a hurricane. Trial by fire, as they ...
  2 weeks ago

• To barry: “Why do people hate you?”

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 534
  October 16, 2009barry goes to Louisiana to talk in pre-set sterilized townhall meetings. He didn’t go to Katrina-ravaged areas – so what was the point? Swing state and to say he was there?Here he is a snippet of his hard-hitting townhall at University of New Orleans. In attendance were Gov Bobby Jindal, New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Media Hammers Obama For Lack of Progress in New Orleans

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 450
  Obama said it in his town hall- -people expect him to have already solved world hunger. The Morning Joe crew laments Obama didnt spend enough time in New Orleans and they say his response to a town hall question on Katrina wasnt good enough, that he was professorial. But Katrina wasnt at the forefront of the town ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ray Nagin: Health reform advocate

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 538
  Guest column by Mayor Ray Nagin: New Orleans needs Obamas health reform plan Guess he decided to take Fujitas advice. Good for him. A better idea would be to agitate for something better than the milquetoast half-assed, pro-insurance industry legislation currently being considered, but when was the last time Ray ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t like to hear where I can’t go

  
  We Could Be Famous — Authority: 491
  Is it true that President Obamas scheduled trip to New Orleans coincides with Mayor Nagins scheduled trip to Cuba ? How convenient! I wonder if President Obama - juggling two wars, a limping economy, a critical healthcare reform initiative, and the coming climate change catastrophe - was asked to ...
  4 weeks ago

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