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Seven years after Katrina, a divided city
August 30, 2012
New Orleans has become a national laboratory for government reforms. But the process through which those experiments have been carried out rarely has been transparent or democratic. The results have been divisive, pitting new residents against those who grew up here, rich against poor, and white against Black.
Ruling in the case of New Orleans City Council v. Tracie Washington
March 12, 2009
This case against Tracie Washington, champion of the rights of the poor to return to New Orleans, sets a frightening precedent: Make a successful public records request that an official doesn’t like and you too could be summoned to court.