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...performance was vintage Ray Nagin, all confidence and charm with a touch of self-deprecation. Admittedly, a little swagger was in order that night: With 38% of the vote, the incumbent mayor led a crowded field of 22 candidates in Saturday's primary, beating his closest rival and runoff opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, by a 10,000-vote margin. But for all of Nagin's good humor, his victory may not be enough to carry him back into office in the May 20 runoff. Nagin's "chocolate city" remarks alienated many conservative white voters who helped propel the political...
...Nagin's opponent in the May runoff, Landrieu, comes from a politically powerful family. His sister is U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and his father, Moon Landrieu, who served as mayor of New Orleans in the 1970s, opened up city government and facilities to African Americans - a record that has not been forgotten. "One of the great challenges for the next mayor is, how do you harness all of this national energy that wants to come in, and how much energy there is in the city, and actually move it in the right direction?" Landrieu told TIME Sunday. He said Saturday...
...roof?basically an overhead meadow. To build it, the contractors covered a plywood surface with a drainage mat, which was then layered with four inches of soil and vermiculite and planted with perennials like sedum and wild strawberry. The roof-meadow helps keep the house cool, controls storm-water runoff and gives neighbors up the hill something more interesting to look at than shingles. As a bonus, they get to watch the owners periodically weeding their roof...
...Sumpin? is indeed up. The open primary for New Orleans mayor is April 22 and the big surprise - to outsiders, at least - is that Mayor Ray Nagin is in the race and expected to easily win a spot for the May runoff. Ever since victims of Hurricane Katrina languished for days at the Superdome without food, water or buses to evacuate, politicians from the Louisiana statehouse to the White House have seen their poll numbers slump to new lows. Nagin, who took the brunt of verbal abuse from evacuees, tried to win them back in January by championing New Orleans...
...fewer than 24 candidates are running for mayor of New Orleans - most of them white, most of them Democrats, and most of them clueless as to their chances of getting a prized runoff spot. Accurate polling is an impossibility in a city where at least half of the city?s 460,000 residents are still miles away in exile. The pundits put Nagin in a runoff with Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, whose father was the city?s last white mayor in the 1970s, or Audubon Institute CEO Ron Forman. But Nagin, an unknown cable company executive before he became mayor...