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  • DA’s Proposed Cut is 15 Percent


    Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority Authority: 592
    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 ...
    3 days ago

  • Mr. Meffert’s Bad Day


    Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority Authority: 592
    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” ...
    6 days ago

  • An Administration Run Amok


    Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority Authority: 592
    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 ...
    6 days ago

  • Nagin says emergency fund needs fattening


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

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


    Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority Authority: 592
    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 ...
    1 week ago

  • N.O. could become city of higher fees


    The CityBusiness Blog — Authority 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 Authority: 91
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Council Members Want Public Input


    Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority Authority: 592
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Your Marxist Moron of the Day


    The Daley Gator — Authority Authority: 625
    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 ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Ray Nagin Visits Cuba to Learn About Disaster Preparedness


    And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority Authority: 615
    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 ...
    3 weeks ago

  • To barry: “Why do people hate you?”


    Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority Authority: 533
    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 Authority: 152
    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

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