President Obama’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has initiated a new accountability process to reduce waste and manage the success of federal IT projects.
TechStat accountability sessions will inform management decisions with a “data-driven, action-focused and results-oriented” process, evaluating federal IT projects across an array of project metrics to satisfy President Obama’s priorities:
Manage IT investments effectively.
Leverage… »
After spending millions of taxpayer dollars to professional services contractors, in a secret bidding and award process, on the city’s 311 system, including an “upgrade” to connect the system to departments, Mayor Ray Nagin has shut down the 311 system, blaming budget shortfalls.
Citizens should now direct their questions and complaints directly to departments:
The 311 phone… »
In a city with a low-wage economy, those most hurt by government mismanagement and inefficiency are the working poor.
Now, HUD provides evidence of yet another government failure that hurts the poor.
Among its many findings, the report shows that HANO is understaffed in most departments, often with undertrained employees and relies too heavily on… »
Final election maps — the February 6th, 2010 City Council races:
District A
District B
District C
District D
District… »
The City Council At-Large race is an election in which the winners are the top two vote earners whose totals are more than 25 percent. Current At-Large Council Member Arnie Fielkow easily took first place. At-Large Council Member Jackie Clarkson edged out District E Council Member Cynthia Willard-Lewis for the second At-Large seat by just… »
In the race to elect a single assessor for the first time in New Orleans history, reform candidate Janis Lemle came up short.
Withstanding a political smear campaign, Lemle retained strong support in the 6th District.
Despite some notable exceptions in the French Quarter, CBD and Mid-City, where Lemle gained support, Claude Mauberret and Erroll… »
The election of Mitch as mayor with 66% of the vote was a landslide. In the election map completed for NolaStat (3 MB PDF), it’s clear that Mitch won every precinct except for one near Lake Catherine where Georges picked up 12 votes to get the majority. The attached map clearly shows that Mitch won… »
