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Despite news that seven people were shot Mardi Gras day along the St. Charles parade route, Police Chief Warren Riley managed to focus on the positive aspects of the day, notably the near-million attendees not randomly wounded.
Albert Wrinkle cuts through all the mayor's B.S. And we mean way beyond. I mean we can't even tell you how far beyond his B.S.
The Front Page of the March '09 edition of The New Orleans Levee Newspaper.
The massive 700-foot-tall Trump Tower New Orleans skyscraper was scuttled after newly released FEMA flood elevation maps for the entire area defined the baseline elevation for new construction at that projected site at 625 feet, almost 90 percent of the building’s height.
The Levee has learned Deuce McAllister, the most prolific running back in Saints’ history, suffered another setback when he partially tore his anterior cruciate ligament during the press conference announcing his release from the team last month.
On the heels of Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer, ABC26 anchorwoman Liz Reyes tries to get a good interview out of the editor, president and sidekick of The Levee. Aired on Tuesday, March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), 10 p.m. news.
Despite Mayor Ray Nagin’s assertions that his e-mails, which are public records, have been erased from city Web servers, a Levee probe has uncovered several of the mayor’s missing electronic messages by turning his computer on.
A funny thing happened on the 1956 opening day of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, the longest highway bridge over water in the world, which united two very different places.
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“God does not want us to question our elected leaders who are not Democrats, but Mr. Jindal’s cruel imitation of me unfairly paints me as a wooden and awkward rube,” said Kenneth Parcell, popularly known as the wooden and awkward rube “Kenneth the Page” on NBC’s hit sitcom “30 Rock.”
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin explains another implausible situation. “Why is this fishy?” the mayor actually said recently. “Why am I always put in a position that I’m doing something wrong?”
Stormy Daniels, a Baton Rouge native and award-winning adult film star and director, soon may bring her unique brand of “stimulus” to Louisiana politics by mounting a campaign against hooker-mounted Christian conservative Louisiana U.S. Sen. David Vitter.
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Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh has taken up The New Orleans Levee Newspaper's offer to allow him to clarify what he meant when he announced that he hopes that President Obama's economic policies fail.
"When I say fail, I actually mean die," Limbaugh said. "I mean, I hope he is mauled by a bear. No, shark attack! Yeah. Hawaii. He gets 'Crocodile Hunter'-ed. Fail! Fail! Fail!"
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