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Congratulations to New Orleans At-Large Council Member Stacy Head

By Brian Denzer
New Orleans City Council At-Large Election Results

Stacy has been a strong supporter of the NolaStat reform program of performance management and improved public access to city data in order to transform city government in a more responsive, transparent, accountable, and equitable service provider for its citizens.
Congratulations, Stacy, on your victory in the 2012 At-Large… »

No love for citizens from the City Planning Commission this Valentines Day

By Brian Denzer

The email below was sent today to the entire City Council, journalists, NolaStat supporters, neighborhood leaders, and the City Planning Commission.
Dear respected journalists and council members,
Were you aware that the City Planning Commission reportedly voted today to approve Mayor Landrieu’s Master Plan amendment to formally… »

City Planning Commission scores defeat for neighborhood participation in New Orleans

By Brian Denzer

The City Planning Commission this week released the notes (PDF) compiled from the last December 15 public meeting — two months ago — on the process that’s underway to fulfill the voter approved citizen engagement component of the Master Plan.
Major themes expressed by the… »


Letter in opposition to Master Plan citizen participation amendment

By Brian Denzer

To: The New Orleans City Planning Commission
1300 Perdido Street, Rm. 1E07
New Orleans, LA 70112
January 26, 2012
Dear Esteemed Commissioners:
As the founder, director, and leading advocate for the transparency, accountability,… »

Editorial: The mayor’s interpretation of transparency and inclusiveness

By Brian Denzer

The mayor’s interpretation of transparency and inclusiveness
5th December 2011
By Edmund W. Lewis
Editor, Louisiana Weekly
For those who expected things at City Hall to significantly improve and for there to be more… »

NolaStat 2011

By Brian Denzer

Dear friends,
It was just a year ago when a few New Orleans idea leaders who supported NolaStat met at a coffee shop to discuss how to ensure that the policy… »

Standing room only at the city’s second BlightStat meeting

By Brian Denzer
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Judging from the standing-room-only meeting space for the second New Orleans “BlightStat” meeting, public interest in the city’s new statistics-driven performance management process to reduce blight is overwhelming.
As a… »

Inaugural city NolaStat meeting begins new era for New Orleans city government

By Brian Denzer

Dear NolaStat supporters,
The very first NolaStat meeting in the City of New Orleans took place last Thursday. NolaStat is now an official city program focused on results-oriented government.
The… »

NolaStat is like “a big red light that flashes”

By Brian Denzer

Lee Zurik has been doing some interesting reporting lately on financial abuse at public agencies.
In his ongoing report on the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, Zurik reported that General… »

“Be hard on the problem, soft on the people”

By Brian Denzer

Mitch Landrieu set a tone for discourse at last night’s neighborhood meeting on budget priorities at a packed Martin Luther King Charter School auditorium in the Lower Ninth Ward.
To underscore… »


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