In This Issue
Michael Jackson in heaven – for heaven's sake.
"The only solace I have left is a comforting passage from the crime-camera Bible:
'Our Father, Greg Meffert, who art under investigation,
Hallowed be thy Nagin.
Thy kingdom go.
Thy will be repaired,
But not working until you get to heaven.'"
Ceeon Quiett, Mayor Nagin's aptly named spokeswoman, talks out of both sides of her mouth – again.
House Bill 2.0 would prohibit anyone at a Louisiana karaoke bar with a blood-alcohol content in excess of 1.5 from taking the microphone to sing and anyone higher than 2.0 from even taking the stage.
The one-and-only DiBari comments on Mayor Nagin's No. 1 priority and the No. 1 criticism of President Obama.
When South Carolina Gov. John Sanford tried to hide an affair by saying he was off hiking down the Appalachian Trail, Louisiana's sex-scandal Sen. David Vitter reportedly said, "Well, I've never heard it called that before."
The meltdown of the William Jefferson political machine continued this week when the indicted former congressman’s great-nephew, Timothy "Timmy" Jefferson, 14, was fired from his unpaid, lunch-period job at the Walter Cohen High School cafeteria.
As recently as the late 1970s, the area along the Mississippi River in New Orleans was almost exclusively dominated by port activity. It's not that mayors haven't tried to develop it. Bud Faust has uncovered one such effort.
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Brad Pitt for mayor.
Since those words were uttered among a group of New Orleans friends lamenting Mayor Ray Nagin’s latest deception, distortion, detraction, disinformation, disparagement, denigration, delusion, derision, division and dirty deal, the idea has taken off publicly.
Ultimate Fighting Championship promoters have announced that New Orleans City Councilwoman Stacy Head and local civil rights lawyer Tracie Washington will settle their bitter e-mail feud in the ring with a three-round, brawl this weekend in a sold-out Superdome!
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