Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Wednesday that he's hoping to build a "new" New Orleans.
In preparation, he announced 100 projects for the city.
"The reality is we're talking about bricks and mortar, but at the end of the day, what we're really talking about is quality of life," said New Orleans City Council President Arnie Fielkow.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu announces new economic development partnership
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu today announced the start of the city's public-private partnership for economic development, called the NOLA Business Alliance, and the composition of its initial board.
He said the new venture will deliver unprecedented coordination for economic development across the city. "This is a landmark step for our city," Landrieu said. "For the first time, both the public and private sector will partner in a single coordinated effort to deliver new jobs and economic opportunities for this city.
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu marks 100 days with 100 projects
To mark his 100th day in office, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Tuesday is expected to lay out a package of 100 bricks-and-mortar recovery projects that his administration will jump start during the next few weeks.
The announcement is sure to please residents who long have pined for more evidence of activity in New Orleans' stymied rebuilding program. It will serve as the latest benchmark of an administration trying to foster progress as it struggles to manage a municipal government beset by budget woes and general dysfunctional.
The announcement is sure to please residents who long have pined for more evidence of activity in New Orleans' stymied rebuilding program. It will serve as the latest benchmark of an administration trying to foster progress as it struggles to manage a municipal government beset by budget woes and general dysfunctional.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu plans three community meetings on city spending priorities
Landrieu will be joined by Councilwomen Susan Guidry in District A and Kristin Gisleson Palmer in District C, plus his deputy mayors, Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, Fire Superintendent Charles Parent and other department heads.
District D Community Meeting on Safe Neighborhoods, Safe Streets
District "D" Councilmember Cynthia Hedge-Morrell will host a joint community meeting from 6 p.m.
- 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 5, 2010. The topic of discussion will focus on promoting "Safe
Neighborhoods, Safe Streets." There will be remarks from New Orleans Police Department (NOPD)
Superintendent Ronal Serpas, Deputy Superintendents Marlon Defillo and Kirk Bouyelas, Captains
Greg Elder and Bernadine Kelly of the Third and Fifth Districts, their Quality of Life Officers and
Community Coordinators and the Crime Stoppers organization.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Franklin Avenue Baptist Church
2515 Franklin Avenue
- 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 5, 2010. The topic of discussion will focus on promoting "Safe
Neighborhoods, Safe Streets." There will be remarks from New Orleans Police Department (NOPD)
Superintendent Ronal Serpas, Deputy Superintendents Marlon Defillo and Kirk Bouyelas, Captains
Greg Elder and Bernadine Kelly of the Third and Fifth Districts, their Quality of Life Officers and
Community Coordinators and the Crime Stoppers organization.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Franklin Avenue Baptist Church
2515 Franklin Avenue
MAYOR LANDRIEU AND COUNCILMAN JOHNSON TO HOLD FIRST COMMUNITY MEETINGS
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State of the City Address
Just a few hours ago, Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave his first State of the City Address. With the good and the bad, Mayor Landrieu gave the facts. Introducing him was Xavier University President Norman Francis, whom left us with inspirational words, “Together we can excel, and not just survive.” He discussed the role that Mayor Landrieu took on in just his first 30 days. Dr. Norman Francis ended with “Over the last three months, Landrieu has used his energy like a jet fire on his way to war.”
In the beginning of Mayor Landrieu’s speech he shared some of the first acts he completed while in office. This includes finding one of the best police chiefs in the country as well as change to how contracts are handled, to give local and minority businesses an opportunity to compete on level playing fields. He then goes discuss his urgency to President Obama to implement offshore drilling and lift the six month moratorium.
In the beginning of Mayor Landrieu’s speech he shared some of the first acts he completed while in office. This includes finding one of the best police chiefs in the country as well as change to how contracts are handled, to give local and minority businesses an opportunity to compete on level playing fields. He then goes discuss his urgency to President Obama to implement offshore drilling and lift the six month moratorium.
Former LRA chief Andy Kopplin named Landrieu's CAO
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The new-look management team that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will introduce during a 1:30 p.m. news conference includes the former director of the state agency that ran the controversial Road Home program, a veteran state legislator, a pair of trusted advisers from the lieutenant governor's office and others with extensive experience in state and city government.
Atop Landrieu's organizational chart, which features a revamped chain of command headed by six deputy mayors, is Andy Kopplin, who was hand-picked by former Gov. Kathleen Blanco to head the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the powerful panel that acted as the conduit for more than $25 billion in federal recovery aid following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Atop Landrieu's organizational chart, which features a revamped chain of command headed by six deputy mayors, is Andy Kopplin, who was hand-picked by former Gov. Kathleen Blanco to head the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the powerful panel that acted as the conduit for more than $25 billion in federal recovery aid following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
New Orleans' new mayor sworn in, Nagin steps down
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NEW ORLEANS — There's a new mayor in New Orleans. Ray Nagin's tenure has ended with the swearing in of Mitch Landrieu (LAN'-droo).
Landrieu, city council members and other city officials took the oath of office Monday morning at a historic government building in the city's central business district.
Mitch Landrieu absorbs views on economic development in New Orleans
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From expanding the port and attracting foreign investors to improving job-training programs and assisting local entrepreneurs, professionals from across the economic spectrum stepped to the microphone Thursday to offer Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu suggestions about how to improve New Orleans' business climate.
With the somewhat amorphous goal of economic development among the three focal points of Landrieu's campaign - on par with reducing crime and improving education - the mayor-elect took copious notes as he listened to nearly 30 speakers gathered in an auditorium at the Port of New Orleans offices.
Mayoral Debate
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January 30, 2010 10:00a.m.
The Cook Center on the Dillard University campus
The Cook Center on the Dillard University campus
If You Were Mayor
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Hello friends and colleagues,
What do you want in your next Mayor? Better yet, If You Were Mayor how would you lead the city, what choices would you make?Here is your chance to let everyone know. Share your thoughts on the problems and challenges we face and your ideas and solutions. All submissions will be open to the public and voted upon. In time, with your participation, we will have OUR blueprint for the perfect Mayor for New Orleans.
We are about ready to release the first barometer on HumidBeings.com, "If I were Mayor".
We are wrapping up the video section and adding the final touches to the barometer page but we want to share the submissions page with some of our colleagues and hopefully get some of y'all to contribute so we can launch publicly with a few submissions in the next day or two.
Thanks in advance for your participation!
Follow this link to submit.
http://nola.humidbeings.com/
You can choose any of the 9 platform topics you wish. Each entry needs to consist of aProblem/Challenge the city faces and your Solution/Idea for how to solve them.Once submitted the entry is final and can then be commented and voted upon. Each entry is limited to 500 characters.
New Orleans Citizens All Abuzz On Twitter Over Mayoral Debate
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Town hall meetings, television coverage, and even radio broadcasts are not uncommon when a mayoral debate is taking place. But New Orleans citizens had twitter all abuzz with no holds bar conversations on Twitter during the recent mayoral debate. A variety of questions from public blight to crime was raised during the debate with the use of the #nolamayor and #NOLAMayoralDebate hashtags.
Mayoral Candidates Debate; Watch It Again
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Reducing crime, addressing blighted properties and developing the local economy were among the topics debated Tuesday in the city's first televised mayoral debate.
Twelve of the 13 candidates for mayor participated Tuesday in the first debate since they all qualified to run for office last week.
Troy Henry says he would set 'a higher standard' for New Orleans as mayor
The New Orleans mayor's race got more crowded Wednesday when business consultant Troy Henry joined a growing list of hopefuls seeking to succeed Ray Nagin.
Henry, 48, the managing partner of Henry Consulting Inc., will be making his first bid for elected office.
"My vision for New Orleans is that it can become the most desired city in America in which to live," Henry said in a written statement announcing his candidacy.
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