New Orleans Mayor: “congratulate me, crime is dropping”
Facts: “Um, no”
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Howard Glaser
@hglaser1
Recovering former fed & state official. Former adjunct Columbia U & Hunter College. SUNY/Harvard Law alum. NY-NOLA “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
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You can still find some today…this is the infamous Rat Rock
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Here we some other photos of Manhattan before the great flattening. You can find many at The Greatest Grid website.
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Watching HBO’s The Pale Blue Eye reminded me of this wonderful 1880 photo of the house on Broadway (then Bloomingdale Rd) and 84th where Poe wrote The Raven. Before Manhattan was largely flattened to finish The Grid.
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And a great sketch of the Elysian Fields terminus
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Including this one on the Poncthartrain RR frrandp.com/2022/12/pontch
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If 2023 is the year US igaming accelerates, the second special guest on the #WorldSeriesofPolitics will lead the charge.
's joins Brendan Bussmann of and to discuss.
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NINE shootings in less than 24 hours. Three dead, six others injured.
At what point do we see bold, political capital consuming action from ? 15 shootings a day? 20?
Hold DA & judges accountable. Support recall. Do something.
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Related to my prior post, here’s piece today about the French women who were forced to come to New Orleans in 1719
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Here’s a link to the book that was the subject of the discussion: Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
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That stretch is basically Sniper’s Alley. 25 known shootings on I-10 this year alone.
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In case you missed the big news out of the South tonight - had 7 threes in Nola for . CJ is baaack.
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I woke up this morning to twitter eulogies for @jmartnyt. Got upset before realizing he’s simply passing to NYT afterlife. May it be the best life yet for him. (Less travel, more NOLA?)
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NOPD officer stood by during French Quarter street corner rape
“A New Orleans police officer declined to intervene when a witness alerted him that an unconscious woman was being raped on a street corner”
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NY Senator Joseph Addabbo on NY leaving $425M on table in iGaming tax revenue: “We are missing the ball here. By not doing iGaming at this point. It would stop the flow of money into other states and into the illegal market.”
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“States are leaving billions of dollars in tax revenue on the table which could fund a variety of public programs and services without resorting to broad based taxes,” commented Howard Glaser, head of government affairs at Light & Wonder.
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States are losing billions to illegal offshore internet gaming. All they have to do to get it back is turn on the legal digital channel as NJ, MI, PA have done.
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We've released an independent VIXIO @GamblingComp report with a first-ever forecast of potential iGaming tax revenue for every U.S. state.
Read the report: bit.ly/3PXk6sw
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@MayorCantrell answer to NOLA’s many challenges: twitter.com/hglaser1/statu…
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your move…
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35 police officers on duty in a major US city on a Friday night: this confirms what people close to will tell you privately about actual police strength numbers in NOLA
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Great piece by on Square Books in Oxford MS; Richard Howorth hosted a book signing for this spring…The Bookseller Who Helped Transform Oxford, Mississippi newyorker.com/news/letter-fr
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Todays news juxtaposition:
NOLA on pace for highest murder rate in the world;
: slips out to French Riviera on taxpayer funded trip
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Always respect for her wisdom on urban issues. Here she turns to New Orleans crime problem: “things have gotten worse—much worse—and they’re still deteriorating” - in a deep dive for NY’s on “The Big Uneasy”
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