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The Advocate
April 11, 2018
Former Mayor Ray Nagin's office also tried but failed to breathe life into the site, which has been vacant since just before Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “We are not ready to make a recommendation,” Rebecca Conwell, Landrieu's senior adviser for economic development, told the development board Tuesday.
The Advocate
April 10, 2018
Mayor-Elect LaToya Cantrell, left, moves to hug former Mayor Sidney Barthelemy, third from left, with Mayor Mitch Landrieu, second from left, and former Mayor Moon Landrieu, right, after the Renwick Lecture, put on by Loyola University's Institute of Politics, at Loyola University in New Orleans, La.,Ãâà...
bestofneworleans.com
April 10, 2018
Marc Morial, mayor from 1994 to 2002 and now president of the National Urban League, had to cancel his appearance; DuBos joked he was visiting former Mayor Ray Nagin, who is serving a sentence in a Texas federal prison. Cantrell said the best piece of advice she's gotten since winning the electionÃâà...
The Advocate
April 2, 2018
Loyola University's Institute for Politics and the Norman C. Francis Leadership Institute will gather all five living, non-incarcerated mayors (sorry, Ray Nagin) on one stage Thursday night (April 5) for this year's annual Ed Renwick Lecture. The dean of the group, Moon Landrieu, will join his outgoing mayorÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 20, 2018
In 2006, the first mayoral election after Hurricane Katrina, Landrieu lost to Ray Nagin after Nagin won black people who feared a loss of black political strength. "Ray Nagin beat me at his weakest moment!" Landrieu said Friday, explaining that he never intended to run for mayor. Addressing his loss to NaginÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 20, 2018
In 2006, the first mayoral election after Hurricane Katrina, Landrieu lost to Ray Nagin after Nagin won black people who feared a loss of black political strength. "Ray Nagin beat me at his weakest moment!" Landrieu said Friday, explaining that he never intended to run for mayor. Addressing his loss to NaginÃâà...
The Advocate
March 16, 2018
The fight between the district and the city apparently goes back to Mayor Ray Nagin's administration, which apparently asked the development district if it could withhold some of the district's tax money to pay off a settlement reached in a pension fund lawsuit. The district's attorney at the time, William Aaron,Ãâà...
CT Post
March 7, 2018
Hilary Fussell Sisco, associate professor and chair of the Department of Strategic Communication at Quinnipiac University, cited the careers of leaders like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Ray Nagin, the former mayor of New Orleans, whose responses to crises shaped their reputationsÃâà...
Bayoubuzz
March 6, 2018
(Photo: Chris Matthews shakes hands with Mitch Landrieu at Mayoral Debate against C. Ray Nagin, 2006, Adobe Photos). When Jeff Crouere, radio talk show host for WGSO 990 AM, asked me during one of my Tuesday morning appearances last year during the middle of the Confederate statue debate,Ãâà...
The Advocate
February 22, 2018
Cummings has been the driving force behind several complexes in recent years that tower over the riverfront and over Crescent Park, an amenity he spearheaded for former Mayor Ray Nagin's administration after Hurricane Katrina. Those projects have frequently resulted in clashes with residents andÃâà...
NOLA.com
February 22, 2018
Graham told a few well-received jokes and spoke admiringly of Mayor Ray Nagin and the Herculean task of recovery facing him. "How do you eat an elephant?" he advised Nagin. "One bite at a time. It's the only way." Luter cherishes the memory of Graham's 2006 visit but his favorite encounter with GrahamÃâà...
The Advocate
February 16, 2018
Advocate Staff Photo by Travis Spradling -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin struggles to keep his balance, after wading into a field of debris and pulling out the family Bible of Stella Chambers, 85, at the site where her FEMA trailer struck her house, which she was inside, during Tuesday morning's tornado inÃâà...
The Advocate
February 10, 2018
Muses' tricentennial float, the "Persistence of New Orleans," replaced Dali's iconic melting clock with a fluid water meter cover, the most visible element in a montage of everything the city has survived in its 300 years (yellow fever, FEMA, BP, Ray Nagin, and so forth). Then there was the "Great Wave offÃâà...
The Root
February 6, 2018
When then-Mayor Ray Nagin's recovery commission put forth a recovery plan that included not rebuilding Broadmoor and many other predominantly black neighborhoods, but instead turning them into parks, Cantrell and other leaders of the community fought back to make sure those neighborhoods wouldÃâà...
NOLA.com
February 6, 2018
Roberts said she wanted to leave, but her car was stolen a week before then-mayor Ray Nagin called for a mandatory evacuation, stranding her with no way out of the city. Forced to stay, Roberts documented their horrific experience on her Sony Hi8 Camcorder. Several days after the storm, Roberts andÃâà...
The Advocate
January 10, 2018
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed a 48-page retort to Ray Nagin's latest bid to vacate his conviction and 10-year prison sentence, arguing that the former New Orleans mayor has miscast or wildly stretched a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that tightened the definition of political bribery. Nagin, whoÃâà...
The Advocate
December 21, 2017
The duties of a “cultural ambassador” are hard to define, but presumably Irvin Mayfield, when then-Mayor Ray Nagin gave him that title in 2003, was thought to embody the spirit of New Orleans. In the immediate aftermath of Katrina two years later, wild and often preposterous reports of looting and thuggeryÃâà...
The Advocate
October 13, 2017
Acting as his own attorney, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin filed a new motion this week asking a federal judge to overturn his conviction on 20 counts related to allegations that he traded his political influence for bribes from city contractors. Nagin's motion, typed at a federal prison camp inÃâà...
NOLA.com
May 28, 2017
12, 2014, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was found guilty of 20 counts of federal corruption charges for illegal dealings with city vendors -- specifically, for accepting bribes in return for favorable treatment -- and for filing false income-tax returns. Nagin, who had served two terms as mayor, was theÃâà...
NOLA.com
May 11, 2017
In a white shirt and shackles, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrived at the Hale Boggs Federal Court building on Poydras Street on Thursday morning (May 11) to be deposed in a legal battle between two rival southeast Louisiana landfill companies. Nagin's trip to New Orleans from federal prison,Ãâà...
NOLA.com
May 9, 2017
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is getting a break from his corruption sentence in federal prison this week, although not the permanent kind he likely would prefer. Nagin is to be deposed Thursday (May 11) at the Hale Boggs Federal Court Building in downtown New Orleans as part of a resurfacedÃâà...
The Advocate
December 31, 1999
And Ray Nagin, now serving time in federal prison on corruption charges, wasn't at the event for obvious reasons. The tone was set early on when moderator Clancy DuBos asked about the best advice each of them had received before taking office. Both Landrieus and Barthelemy responded that they hadÃâà...
bestofneworleans.com
December 31, 1999
... Mayor Sidney Barthelemy (1986-1994), Mayor Mitch Landrieu (2008-2016) and Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell (Marc Morial, mayor from 1994 to 2002 and now president of the National Urban League, had to cancel his appearance; DuBos joked he was visiting former Mayor Ray Nagin, who is serving aÃâà...
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