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 Manager Jim Bridger spent $108,000 over three years on meals and liquor — all while earning an eye-popping $350,000 a year, making Bridger one of… »
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 the importance of the meeting, Landrieu introduced the heads of all city departments, and invited… »
What’s the exact number of French Quarter small businesses, single-family dwellings, and multi-family dwellings with four or fewer units that are all eligible for SDT trash pickup?
Choose the best answer:
A) 3,188
B) 2,911
C) 5,000
D) 4,062
E) 6,500
This is not to make light of a serious… »
The NolaStat report has offered a treatment of the TechStat approach used to manage IT projects in the District of Columbia. Additionally, the use of portfolio managers responsible for monitoring… »
What’s a UCR?
Find out by reading this informative presentation by retired NOPD Sgt. Jimmy Gallagher… »
Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed that all city workers take 11 unpaid furlough days this year in order to help balance a projected $67 million deficit in the 2010 budget.
“This is… »
Post revised on 6/18/2010 to include the full statement by Chief Serpas, a statement issued by Mayor Landrieu and Councilmember Kristen Gisleson-Palmer, and a Gambit blog story about a protest… »
New Orleans remains the most blighted city in America. The factors that produced an estimated 57,000 blighted properties are historic outmigration, exacerbated by flooding after Hurricane Katrina.
Despite the overwhelming need… »
Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued an executive order yesterday in City Council chambers to create a more “transparent and accountable process” for producing the annual budget.
Responding to criticisms of the previous… »
It’s become clear since his May 3rd inauguration that Mayor Landrieu will be adopting a performance management policy, like Baltimore’s CitiStat model, to improve the delivery of city services to… »
