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Letter in opposition to Master Plan citizen participation amendment
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
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 quite a wake-up call.
We’ve witnessed the mayor try his best… »
Progress report on the adoption of NolaStat recommendations
It’s been a year since Mitch Landrieu was inaugurated as Mayor of the City of New Orleans. How is the new Mayor doing at implementing NolaStat transparency and accountability recommendations?
Here are the findings obtained from research, community feedback, and a May 25th Q&A with administration officials.
In the report each of the four primary NolaStat recommendations… »
NolaStat 2011
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 not all. Furthermore, there was no certainty that promises made… »
Standing room only at the city’s second BlightStat meeting
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 metric of the success of the effort to have NolaStat recommendations implemented by the Landrieu administration, the packed BlightStat meeting suggests that the message has… »
NolaStat is like “a big red light that flashes”
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… »
“Be hard on the problem, soft on the people”
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 people to bring their concerns directly to those managers after… »
French Quarter trash negotiations could use some freshening up
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 quality of life issue in the Quarter, or the importance… »
“Bad choices based on bad options”
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 not a proud moment for the city of New Orleans,” Landrieu said. “I am particularly angry as a citizen and now as the chief executive… »
Tensions rise between street musicians and the NOPD in the French Quarter
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 in Jackson Square led by musician Glen David Andrews.
Don’t Stop the Music. Let New Orleans Street Musicians Play is a newly-formed advocacy effort to support… »
