By admin on January 25, 2011
City Council Vice President Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson and District “C” Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer visited Brechtel Park to thank the middle school children who spent the day planting trees there.
Posted in Community, Events, Featured, General, Media Library, Newsletters, Photo Galleries, Recovery, Regional Parks | Tagged Algiers, Brechtel Park, NORD, Youth and Recreation
By admin on December 14, 2010
The City Council has raised the tax millage rate for 2011 in order to provide funding for critical services and departments.
Posted in City Government, Featured, Housing, Issues, News, News Articles, Recovery | Tagged Budget, City Hall, Council Meetings, Professional Services Contracts, sanitation
By admin on November 4, 2010
New Orleans, LA – New Orleans should build a new jail, said corrections expert James Austin after touring some of crumbling and temporary structures that serve as the city’s jail.
Posted in City Government, Criminal Justice, Featured, Good Government, News, News Articles, Recovery | Tagged Orleans Parish Prison
By admin on September 30, 2010
The three-year NASA authorization bill, which has already passed the Senate, contains provisions that Louisiana lawmakers say will be helpful to job retention at Lockheed Martin’s operations at the New Orleans facility.
Posted in Community, Economic Development, Featured, News, News Articles, Recovery | Tagged Michoud Assembly plan, N.O. East
By admin on September 27, 2010
The House passed legislation Thursday that extends the federal flood insurance program for another year.
Posted in Community, News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness
By admin on September 24, 2010
Residents of the Iberville public housing complex said that they want to steer the proposed Iberville redevelopment, not just approve someone’s else plans.
Posted in City Government, Community, Economic Development, Featured, Housing, News, News Articles, Recovery | Tagged Iberville public housing development, public housing
By admin on September 23, 2010
The federal government should establish a trust fund to pay for coastal restoration projects in states along the northern Gulf Coast, to be initially financed by penalties paid for violating federal laws, including 80 percent of any fines levied as a result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, concludes a report released Tuesday by America’s Energy Coast and its parent America’s Wetland Foundation.
Posted in Community, News, News Articles, Recovery, Storm Protection and Preparedness | Tagged Coastal Restoration
By admin on September 23, 2010
The federal government Wednesday gave its official blessing to a Louisiana proposal to steer a portion of its Medicaid budget from hospitals to the network of primary care clinics that have proliferated since Hurricane Katrina.
Posted in Community, Featured, News, News Articles, Recovery | Tagged community-based health clinics, Medicine and Health
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