“The dissenting justices clearly state how the four members of the majority have disregarded keystones of our government structure such as the separation of powers and the role of judicial precedent to reach the decision they hand down today”, Petit said in a statement. It comes days after the gubernatorial candidate appeared at a debate Saturday at the annual Louisiana State Troopers Association Convention in Baton Rouge.
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The Louisiana governor hopeful also outlined his proposal to curb the New Orleans murder epidemic. From the Old Testament’s Babylon to HBO’s “The Wire”, it’s clear that the American metropolis is often a place where graft, street crime and economic inequality run rampant.
The Tulane Prevention Research Center found that there were 30 supermarkets in New Orleans as of 2014, compared to less than half of that in 2007.
“Apparently it takes a Katrina (or, more accurately, a federal levee disaster) to clean up what McQueary calls Chicago’s ‘rot, ‘” Kevin Allman of the Gambit, a New Orleans alternative weekly, wrote.
“David Vitter has been a part of the problem in Washington for over a decade and has been wholly ineffective in delivering additional federal resources to local law enforcement agencies to fight crime,” Landrieu said.
But with August 29 fast approaching and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu making media rounds, including at the Tribune Editorial Board, I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago – an unpredictable, haughty, devastating swirl of fury. He said public safety in New Orleans was a top priority for his administration. People are moving back to New Orleans, and property values are on the rise. He would like to see the LSP train the the NOPD. It charts the next chapter for the city of New Orleans, bolstered by a divisive city council race, the destruction of the city’s housing projects and the rise of new neighborhoods like Brad Pitt’s eco-friendly Make It Right experiment in the ravaged Lower Ninth Ward, the awareness series like HBO’s Treme raised, and the stories of individual residents who are working towards rebuilding their lives.
“For goodness sake, focus on murders, not monuments”, Vitter said.
In the column, McQueary speaks of “the ruinous, junk-bond status of the district’s finances” when discussing Chicago Public Schools.
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Landrieu, a Democrat, recently criticized Vitter for comments he made about law enforcement in the city.
