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The LSU/VA project has been mired in controversy since its inception in November 2007, when Mayor C. Ray Nagin signed a deal with the Veterans Administration to provide land currently occupied by homes and businesses “construction ready.” For many it feels like a done deal with no opportunity for meaningful input from property owners, urban planners, preservationists, and others opposed to the project. Read more >

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 >