Maybe you heard

Maybe you heard about the events that have been recently taking place in my city. Nagin's administration created this non profit called NOAH that handles blighted property and hands out city contracts for them to be gutted and the grasses to be cut (it's law that blighted property be gutted and the grass manicured).

Well, the Nagster's brother in law is the 4th largest contractor under this program (i believe) and these contractors are allegedly (come on !) being compensated for properties that: don't exist, another organization has gutted and haven't been tended to all together.

The buck doesn't stop there, the director of NOAH's name is Stacey Jackson and she formed a company called T.J. Enterprises, her company bought blighted property from NORA (the agency that oversees the properties) and hasn't fixed one piece of wood on them.

Catch the full story here.

The point is, this sucks for New Orleans, we citizens try so hard just to be able to live in a semi corrupt environment, but we don't even get shown any type of appreciation.

As a matter of fact, New Orleans really has no new issues that's come into play post Katrina. We've always had high crime levels, low poverty, a shrinking middle class, poor infustructure, dissatisfactory sewage, corruption and black/white tension.

The only difference is that the storm has exposed these issues and made them public for the nation to see. My fear is that the citizens believe a new mayor and DA would change the problem. NO!! It takes communities to change things within the community, if we can all set aside our differences and work in conjunction with one another, we can get alot accomplished.

do the homework kids.