New Orleans City Business reporter Jennifer Larino wrote an excellent article a couple of weeks ago on the reforms Mayor Landrieu will need to tackle… »
Why NolaStat?
Incompetence is a form of corruption
This noteworthy comment, filched from a Lord David HumidCity blog post, identifies a number of problems which NolaStat aspires to solve through greater transparency — specifically, with access to open data — fostering improved civic engagement, and accountability:
# Lizzy Caston Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I learned these things in my Urban Planning grad… »
“I think we will have citizens asking more questions about their government”
AP reporter Becky Bohrer reports that Ray Nagin is dogged by his 2002 campaign promises to bring technology to City Hall, and to create a more transparent government:
“It’s not your father’s New Orleans,” University of New Orleans political scientist Ed Chervenak said, adding that residents post-Katrina are demanding transparency and accountability.
Just what Nagin promised in… »
“I’m not impressed with the city’s handling of public record requests these days”
The Times-Picayune:
“They’re entitled to these records,” Civil District Court Judge Robin Giarrusso said after a hearing in her courtroom. “Public records are public records are public records, and the citizens of this city have a right to know what’s in them.” …
“When I was a city attorney we had three days to turn those records… »
Who’s ahead and who’s behind in the City Hall slugfest?
An opinion published in The Times-Picayune by David Marcello, executive director of The Public Law Center of Tulane and Loyola law schools
Who’s ahead and who’s behind in the City Hall slugfest? I don’t know, and I don’t care.
It matters not who’s winning between the mayor and the council. What’s important is which one of them… »
