In This Issue
Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s blue-ribbon committee to choose a successor to outgoing LA-SPCA Director Laura Maloney, who is relocating to Australia with her husband, has picked Michael Vick.
In a stunning development, the city of New Orleans’ Executive Director for Recovery Management, Dr. Edward Blakely Jr., has announced his resignation to accept a similar position – heading recovery efforts in the fabled Lost City of Atlantis.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency does it again.
New Orleans’ seven tax assessors have been honored by FEMA for this month’s re-enactment of the calamity at the Convention Center in the aftermath of the federal levee failures following Hurricane Katrina two years ago.
On Dec. 12, 1970, The Doors played its final public concert at the classic and departed Warehouse club in New Orleans. It was a disastrous event preceded by an incredible interview.
U.S. Rep. and former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) has another brilliant idea for handling a disaster.
As part of a run-for-governor strategy, Mayor Nagin's staff has secretly developed a “Nagin Apology Tour ’07,” which combines the mayor’s passion – traveling out of the city – with the need for him to address his never-ending string of embarrassing statements and actions. The mayor doesn't like it.
Newly transplanted N.O. teacher Mark Tweedy has catalyzed a linguistic revolution in one of the most poverty-stricken school districts in the city. Reluctantly, his father admitted that his son has “done good.” In fact, Tweedy apparently has done better than good, he has done well.
A judge has agreed that Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti was an idiot for bringing charges against a doctor he accused of killing patients at a sweltering and flooded New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina and for turning the case over to Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan for prosecution.
From leather ball sacks to ball gags, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has announced plans to dedicate a room in his Bourbon Street club to the room Louisiana U.S. Senator David Vitter is rumored to have frequented at the former and infamous Canal Street Brothel in New Orleans.
Call for Jefferson Parish crime-fighters draws the cream of the crop.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has teamed with his bitter enemy, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, to publish a new book titled, “Leadership for Dummies: A Reference for Louisiana and Other Banana Republics!” It’s all a part of the mayor’s efforts to broaden what he has called the city’s murder “brand.”
President Bush returned to New Orleans for the two-year date of the levees breaks, and just like his administration, including FEMA, his appearance caused gridlock in New Orleans. Also returning, in this month's Levee, is editorial cartoonist David Spicuzza.
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The Sewerage & Water Board again has stopped putting the cavity-fighting chemical flouride in the city's drinking water. Further tests show the water also lacks hydrogen and oxygen. "We don't know what's in there," one official said.
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