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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, and citizen participation recommendations described by the NolaStat reform, and through a variety of interactions with a broad constituency of the city, I have become… »

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 justice, democracy, truthfulness and transparency from local elected officials, the past few months have been… »

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 recommendations were implemented by the next mayor. There were positive assurances from many candidates, but… »


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… »

French Quarter trash negotiations could use some freshening up

By Brian Denzer

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… »

TechStat teaches skills that promote good government

By Brian Denzer

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… »

A primer on UCR crime statistics

By Brian Denzer

What’s a UCR?
Find out by reading this informative presentation by retired NOPD Sgt. Jimmy Gallagher… »


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