More lives and cycles

I don't think this stuff is part of today's indictments but today is a good day to remember that  the Emperor Nagin Has No Clothes moment of critical mass at least as far as the local media was concerned happened around the time of the NOAH scandal which came to light largely through the efforts of Karen Gadbois (and a few others).

NEW ORLEANS — The citizens of this scarred city have grown accustomed to promises of grand official projects that will infallibly transform life here but somehow never do. Their attention is diminishing.

But not in the case of Karen Gadbois. She jumps in her car and checks up on the promises, driving for hours across the city, then blogs about the results on her kitchen table while her dogs yap around her. A few months ago, she discovered a city renovation program that was not actually fixing up houses. 

Today the most complete archive of NOAH related stuff is still up at the now dormant WCBF in case you are feeling nostalgic. 

Karen has since gone on to found the local non-profit investigative journalism website The Lens which happens to be celebrating its third anniversary today.

They do a pretty ok job over at The Lens when they're not just retweeting everybody in town. 

This might be a good day to give them a pat on the back.