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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 ...
  22 hours ago

• Evolution or Devolution of Political Discourse?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
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  1 day ago

• New Orleans Mayor Praises Katrina Liability Ruling

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• About half a million birds wetlands in Kashmir

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Parvez ButtSrinagar, Nov 20 (ANI): About half a million migratory birds have arrived for their annual sojourn at the Hokersar wetlands in Kashmir from Central Asia. Some of the popular migratory birds visiting the region are waterfowls, goose, shoveller, red-crested pochard, white-eyed pochard, common teal, ...
  4 days ago

• Only in New Orleans (and by extension, Louisiana)

  
  Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams — Authority: 113
  The mayoral race is starting to heat up, kinda-it’s gone from cold to tepid, but there’s nobody out there galvanizing anybody. So far there are a few people I really don’t like, but none that get me fired up. I think the overall feeling is: “Meh. Anybody’s better than Nagin.” Mayor Nagin who, it should be ...
  5 days ago

• Ray Nagins laissez-faire recovery in progress

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 559
  Are they still paying big-time wages at Genes Po-boys? There is a glut of vacant apartments in New Orleans but the people who need them cant afford them, according to a study released today by a pair of research organizations. The study estimates that by next year, the city will have a surplus of at least 6,582 ...
  1 week ago

• IG criticizes Nagin administration for contract

  
  The CityBusiness Blog — Authority: 423
  By Deon Roberts, Online Editor The city’s inspector general, Ed Quatrevaux, says the Nagin administration used the wrong kind of contracting for the revitalization of the Municipal Auditorium. Quatrevaux says the project should be awarded using a development contract, not a professional services contract, and that ...
  1 week ago

• DA’s Proposed Cut is 15 Percent

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 571
  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: 571
  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

• Early Edition: Get in the Game

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 571
  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 weeks ago

• An Administration Run Amok

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 571
  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 weeks ago

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

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 559
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Independent Political Report — Authority: 524
  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 , ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 571
  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, ...
  3 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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• In New Orleans, Mayoral Race Still Lacks Heft

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  John Georges, who has indicated interest in being mayor of New Orleans, greeted supporters at a campaign fundraiser last week.
  3 weeks ago

• Council Members Want Public Input

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 571
  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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