This might be a good question for the FCC to answer.
Just how is it that an out-of-town company, Clear Channel, which sponsors so many nationally-syndicated voices of hatred against New Orleans on our airwaves, is allowed to retain its license to broadcast in New Orleans?
If station managers truly [...]
The 1st Amendment says the the government shall not abridge the freedom of speech of citizens or the press.
It protects Tracie Washington’s right to express her own views, or to propagate her opinions through various media.
It doesn’t say Tracie Washington has the right to publish other people’s communications [...]
Because it seems that doing nothing would be better for New Orleans residents.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin creates home loan frustration
Mayor Ray Nagin’s decision to “reprogram” $20 million away from a popular mortgage subsidy program threatens to derail deals for close to 100 families of moderate means who already [...]
Wendell Potter, “They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors”: Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry, on Democracy Now:
I was having to fly to a meeting, and I often would fly on one of the corporate jets. And while I was doing that, I was [...]
I will never vote for Mary Landrieu again. I’m finished with her $1.6 million bullsh!t.
Now she’s conjuring the need for “bipartisanship” as a cover for her insurance company donors.
Meanwhile, President Obama’s public health option is gaining broad support, except for a few old Republican cranks, and Mary [...]
If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care, if they tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government — which they say can’t run anything — suddenly is going to drive them out of business? [...]
Some people have suspected that he’s fond of the herb — which might explain why trips to Jamaica paid for by contractors doing business with Ray Nagin are blurry — but you won’t find trips to the store for rolling papers on his calendar.
[...]It’s a great travesty to true equal opportunity concerns that Councilwoman Cynthia Hedge-Morrell is using AmericaSpeaks to cover for her divisive failure to show decisive leadership on a matter of vital importance to the public and the reputation of New Orleans: good government.
Her dialog on race [...]
It’s true. Every time I think about soaring crime, failing schools, and miserable job prospects in New Orleans, and how unfair it would be to subject the children I will one day have to that kind of environment, the one thing that would change my mind about leaving New Orleans [...]
That’s our girl, Lisa Jackson.
[...]Ironic, under the circumstances:
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[...]When you really need an off-the-hook rant against LSU, we could really use Ashley’s help.
The whole premise of incompetence by the Army Corps of Engineers’ bureaucracy is an argument for which Louisiana, and the rest of the nation, ought to be thanking Ivor van Heerden:
As van Heerden [...]
“Reverend” Toris Young and C-Murder make good partners. They have a lot in common.
In lieu of a substantive change in policy, or instituting greater transparency and accountability, a name change for NORA. It’s just more psychopathic behavior from C. Ray Nagin. Although it’s also just possible [...]
The ankle-bracelet monitoring company, Total Sentencing Alternatives Program, looks like yet another incompetent contractor — “a politically active company with no experience in the criminal justice field” — which Ray Nagin favored over other more experienced vendors.
A criminal violated his curfew multiple times after TSAP attached a GPS [...]
The ankle-bracelet monitoring company, Total Sentencing Alternatives Program, looks like yet another incompetent contractor — “a politically active company with no experience in the criminal justice field” — which Ray Nagin favored over other more experienced vendors.
A criminal violated his curfew multiple times after TSAP attached a [...]
More insolence from NOPD Superintendent Warren Riley:
“We do have plans as it relates to the federal funding,” Riley said. “Ms. Midura, maybe she hasn’t been privileged to the information. We all are working together. We’ve had five meetings already, putting this plan together. So those things are works [...]
One of his latest taxpayer-skimming schemes appears to be computer kiosks — “a powerful weapon for recovery.” Maybe you’ve seen them in the corridors of City Hall. They make nice-looking furniture even when they don’t work.
Looks like the “whiz kid” is [...]
Would it have been too much trouble for the LRA to pick up the phone and get a few home elevation estimates three-and-a-half years ago?
Too few Louisiana homeowners were choosing to participate in elevation incentive programs because the grants weren’t enough to cover the expenses, said Paul Rainwater, executive [...]
3 officers killed in Pittsburgh shooting:
PITTSBURGH — A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. Friends said he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns. …
One witness reported hearing hundreds of shots. [...]
You’d think that after 20 years of collecting rent from one of the best breakfast joints in town, the owner of the building wouldn’t want to allow the Bluebird Cafe to close.
“The lease that I have doesn’t have the amendments I need in order to pass the Bluebird on [...]
The citizens of New Orleans
v.
Clear Channel, Neil Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News, all of their advertisers, and the rest of the liars in right-wing media
If [insert right-wing bloviator] “won’t use the current misery of Midwestern flood [...]
Yeah, Ray Nagin really has turned a corner in the recovery of New Orleans, being the boneheaded obstructionist of an investigation — if not a conspiratorially complicit participant — into a scheme to rip-off taxpayers through the New Orleans Affordable Homeownership program to gut flooded homes.
Kinda ironic that on the day NPR aired this statement by Ray Nagin, WWL’s Eyewitness News aired report about another house which an owner was trying to rebuild, but which Nagin’s administration demolished in error.
How about a moratorium on any more demolitions until Ray Nagin testifies before the [...]
At tonight’s press conference:
QUESTION: But on AIG, why did you wait — why did you wait days to come out and express that outrage? It seems like the action is coming out of New York and the attorney general’s office. It took you days to come public with Secretary [...]
This American Zombie essay goes a long way to explaining why Ray Nagin will go down in history as the worst mayor ever, fanning the flames of intolerance with race-baiting tactics, rather than exhibiting grace and leadership — or simply getting out of the way — at a time [...]
‘Cuz this shit is going straight to the landfill.
I have another title for Veronica White’s new book: “How to Maximize Your Personal Gain and Screw a Disaster Community by Using Race-Baiting Tactics and Illegal Political Sabotage to Cover Up Incompetence and Corruption”
That [...]
Aw man! Why is it so hard to find a good CTO in this town who doesn’t just accidentally delete three years of his boss’ emails, but who can then conveniently find three years of emails by his boss’ political enemies to hand [...]
How does Reverend Donald R. Berryhill, Sr. hold down four jobs at the same time — NOPD child abuse detective, security for the city’s sanitation department, pastor at First Zion Baptist Church, and activist in a movement to recall Councilwoman Stacy Head?
The activity to recall Stacy [...]
If you worked in the private sector and ran a project that lost $4 million, do you think you’d be able to keep your job?
How does Ray Nagin treat that kind of behavior? The walking Id who once promoted his business pedigree will reward you with a job paying $85,000.
That’s [...]
In the WWL suit against the Nagin administration, Civil District Court judge Rosemary Ledet deserves our praise for finding C. Ray Nagin and City Attorney Penya Moses-Fields in “flagrant violation of the law they have sworn to uphold.”
But here’s the problem with who people aren’t technologically-savvy, or who [...]
Among those who defended Ray Nagin’s assault on open contracting procedures, was a self-proclaimed minister of ministers, Reverend Toris Young:
Rev. Toris Young, leader of the campaign to recall Congressman Joseph Cao, says he will take it to federal court. At least Young knows how to get there, because [...]
“They build databases. They get grants. When we ask where the money is, they say it went for administrative fees. I have a problem when others come into my city and tell me about me.”
Courtney Martin ends her article, “The Trouble With Outside Activists,” with the most important [...]
I had to wire my jaw shut after Ray Ray had the gall to actually say that, after he argued that his own emails had to be deleted from a server (notwithstanding the fact that he could have bought a one terrabyte back-up hard drive for the price of [...]
It’s time to stop Jim Letten ‘em go. Where has our U.S. Attorney been?
We have a lot of moving parts in New Orleans. We need someone in the U.S. Attorney’s post who can handle more than one thing at a time, and who isn’t afraid to seek justice when public [...]
What a waste of taxpayer money — monitoring hurricanes and volcanoes so that people can get out of the way of impending disasters?
We don’t want to create more dependence on government. We want more God-fearing people.
It’s all in the hands of God anyway, right? So who [...]
For a party coming apart at the seams, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal turned out to be the perfect spokesperson for the Republican response to President Obama’s address to Congress.
[...]The bureaucratic incompetence which Bobby Jindal vilified, in his knee-jerk Republican response to a powerful speech by Barack Obama, occurred, in fact, during a Republican president.
The boats were all lined up ready to go — when some bureaucrat showed up and told them they couldn’t go out [...]
Why would a guy reject $98 million targeted for Louisiana’s jobless?
Maybe he could just do some laying on of hands and miraculously create money for jobless relief.
Sacrificing his home state for personal glory and cheap partisan points isn’t exactly an inspiring platform for a would-be presidential hopeful.
[...]King Ray says he can’t spend that recovery money, which he claims is “in the pipeline,” fast enough if everyone’s watching him dole out contracts.
His erroneous argument is that letting the public sit in on contract review proceedings, or read minutes, or see contracts, or watch archived video, will [...]
Ray Nagin is an outlaw.
So email server storage was a problem, huh?
And given the requirements of transparency for democracy to function, and millions spent on bullshit contracts, the city couldn’t buy a $100 500 gig, or a terrabyte drive, to do backups with?
And the mayor’s emails were treated [...]
Those who know me outside of my cranky blog persona know that I have a fascination with the art of the interview.
It doesn’t get any better than David Letterman’s interview with the crew of U.S. Airways flight 1549 this past Tuesday.
David Letterman has gone through some distinct periods in his [...]
