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If your vote is easily swayed by glossy ads in your mailbox or negative campaign ads on local broadcast stations, then devote an hour of your life to a relaxed setting with the candidates one-on-one hosted by local business groups in local settings, like the Speakeasy Series at the Icehouse, and actually visualize a candidate in 3-D. Read more >

To attract new capital to New Orleans, we tend to market the city’s assets - its distinctive character, its beautiful architecture, its music. Meanwhile, the underlying deficiencies that keep investors away - crime, poverty, low literacy - continue unabated. Last… Read more >

When Maple Street Children’s Bookshop announced its closing after nearly thirty years in business, owner Cindy Dike pointed to three forces that conspired against her continued success: the flagging economy; the opening of Borders Books on St. Charles Avenue; and… Read more >

A new Walgreens store is under construction on the long-derelict Robèrt Grocery site at the intersection of N. Carrollton Avenue and Canal Street. With this project, Mid-City gains a low-density, single story, single-use construction much like any of the other… Read more >

In a fierce struggle supported by The Urban Conservancy that lasted up through the final hours of the 2009 regular legislative session, the Business Council led a strong and diverse coalition in beating back efforts to overturn the November 2008… Read more >