1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. If New Orleans re-elected Ray Nagin, exactly how bad do you think THIS guy had to be…
1927 – Politics as she is practiced in the USSR: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving [...]
Ray Nagin has an interview in the Times-Picayune today wherein he says that we hurt Ed Blakely’s feelings. We didn’t make him feel welcome enough.
I don’t know, dude. I showed up for his bike-ride around the Carrollton area, along with city council member Shelley Midura and a whole [...]
BY ALLEN JOHNSON JR.
U.S. Attorney Jim Letten today announced a 63-count indictment against Gregory Meffert, the city’s first chief technology officer — raising questions about how much has changed and how much has stayed the same at City Hall under outgoing Mayor Ray Nagin.
Inaugurated as a “reform” mayor in 2002, [...]
Things have come full circle on Ray Nagin. In 2002, he cast himself as the anti-Morial, the squeaky-clean “businessman” who was going to sweep out the corruption of the previous administration. After Friday’s 63-count corruption indictment against former city technology chief Greg Meffert — once Nagin’s top aide and close [...]
Karen Gadbois’ assessment of Ed Blakely.
Times-Picayune editorial about him.
Arnie Fielkow’s statement about him.
I ask myself what we did to deserve this guy, and then I remember that we re-elected the man who hired him, Ray Nagin. What do you want to bet that Blakely [...]
Ray Nagin and a host of New Orleans area officials have been on a fact finding mission in Cuba since Friday. After getting a closer look at Cuba's disaster-response system, Nagin liked what he saw:
"...one of the biggest weaknesses we had during Hurricane Katrina is it wasn't clear" [...]
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is on a field trip to Cuba, on a State Department sanctioned expedition, in order to learn about disaster preparedness.
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