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Funding for AIDS Services Delayed
Local agencies that provide support to HIV/AIDS patients say the city's process for dispersing much-needed funds is clogged in bureaucracy.
Belle Reve is a Bywater facility that has provided housing and other
services for people with HIV/AIDS for 16 years. Assisting HIV/AIDS
patients is an expensive proposition because care has to be available
24 hours a day, and the agency depends on a number of income streams,
including foundation grants and federal monies.
By David Winkler-Schmit |
November 2, 2009
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Cultural Economy Summit
On July 31, 2005, Mt. Auburn Associates released a 200-page report
titled "Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business."
By Noah Bonaparte Pais |
October 26, 2009
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Work and Home
Should tenants be required to work if they want to live in New Orleans' new public housing complexes? Building managers are getting mixed signals from municipal and national government.
David Abbenante thinks the majority of those who receive public
housing assistance are low-paid employees like service industry
workers, clerical staff and unskilled laborers, whom he refers to as
"the workforce backbone of our community." So when River Garden, a
mixed-income housing development in the Lower Garden District, began
accepting tenant applications in 2005, Abbenante, president of the
for-profit HRI Management, which owns and manages River Garden,
instituted a work requirement for subsidized housing applicants at the
development.
By David Winkler-Schmit |
October 19, 2009
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Shelley Midura Wants to Clean the Big House: OPP
An outside monitor and restrictions on its funding are first steps in scrubbing alleged prisoner abuses at the Orleans Parish Prison
Councilwoman Shelley Midura is fed up. She says the U.S. Department
of Justice's (DOJ) recent report accusing Orleans Parish Prison (OPP)
of violating inmates' rights is yet another example of the jail having
little external oversight, and how the sheriff provides scant knowledge
on prison operations.
By David Winkler-Schmit |
October 12, 2009
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Project Censored
The top stories not brought to you by mainstream news media in 2008 and 2009
Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he's
finished with reform.
By Rebecca Bowe |
October 5, 2009
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James Carville: If I Could, I Would
As potential mayoral candidates dwindle, one man would love the chance to take on the job
"The Mayor shall be a citizen of the United States and a
qualified elector of the City, and shall have been domiciled in the
City for at least five years immediately preceding the
election." — New Orleans Home Rule Charter, Section 4-202.
By James Carville |
September 28, 2009
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New Orleans family loses FEMA trailer suit
After a two-week trial in, the first manufacturer sued over
formaldehyde in FEMA trailers was absolved of responsibility by a U.S.
District Court jury on Thursday. An eight-member jury found Gulf Stream
Coach, an Indiana company that made 50,000 trailers for FEMA's
emergency housing program after Hurricane Katrina, did not construct an
unreasonably dangerous product, and Fluor, the FEMA contractor
responsible for hauling and installing the unit, was not negligent in
setting up the trailer that housed New Orleanians Alana Alexander and
her two children.
By Matt Robinson |
September 28, 2009
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The End of Deutsches Haus?
As Deutsches Haus gears up for Oktoberfest, the cultural club faces big changes on the horizon.
There's a big digital clock mounted over the bar inside Deutsches
Haus, keeping a precise and rapidly diminishing countdown until the
start of Oktoberfest 2009 this weekend.
By Ian McNulty |
September 21, 2009
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