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  • Requesting that the City Council vote against Text Amendment #19
    328 days ago

    Dear NolaStat supporters, I ask you to take a brief moment this morning to contact the City Council to voice…

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  • Save the Times-Picayune
    350 days ago

    Dear friends, Some of the things I know about the staff of the Times-Picayune: The are incredibly hard-working, they question…

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  • Neighborhood Participation Plan Proposal Presentation: June 13
    355 days ago

    The next step in the city’s implementation of a Neighborhood Participation Plan is the presentation of a draft recommendations.  The…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Congratulations to New Orleans At-Large Council Member Stacy Head
    394 days ago

    Stacy has been a strong supporter of the NolaStat reform program of performance management and improved public access to city…

    Nola Stat 0
  • No love for citizens from the City Planning Commission this Valentines Day
    461 days ago

    The letter below was sent today to the entire City Council, journalists, NolaStat supporters, neighborhood leaders, and the City Planning…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Planning process to continue for neighborhood participation in New Orleans land use planning
    461 days ago

    The City Planning Commission this week released the notes (PDF) compiled from the last December 15 public meeting on the…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Letter in opposition to Master Plan citizen participation amendment
    480 days ago

    To: The New Orleans City Planning Commission 1300 Perdido Street, Rm. 1E07 New Orleans, LA 70112 January 26, 2012 Dear…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Editorial: The mayor’s interpretation of transparency and inclusiveness
    523 days ago

    The mayor’s interpretation of transparency and inclusiveness 5th December 2011 By Edmund W. Lewis Editor, Louisiana Weekly For those who…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Progress report on the adoption of NolaStat recommendations
    712 days ago

    It’s been a year since Mitch Landrieu was inaugurated as Mayor of the City of New Orleans. How is the…

    Nola Stat 0
  • NolaStat 2011
    870 days ago

    Dear friends, It was just a year ago when a few New Orleans idea leaders who supported NolaStat met at…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Standing room only at the city’s second BlightStat meeting
    914 days ago

    Judging from the standing-room-only meeting space for the second New Orleans “BlightStat” meeting, public interest in the city’s new statistics-driven…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Inaugural city NolaStat meeting begins new era for New Orleans city government
    920 days ago

    Dear NolaStat supporters, The very first NolaStat meeting in the City of New Orleans took place last Thursday. NolaStat is…

    Nola Stat 0
  • NolaStat is like “a big red light that flashes”
    1018 days ago

    Lee Zurik has been doing some interesting reporting lately on payroll abuse at public agencies. In his ongoing report on…

    Nola Stat 0
  • “Be hard on the problem, soft on the people”
    1019 days ago

    Mitch Landrieu set a tone for discourse at last night’s neighborhood meeting on budget priorities at a packed Martin Luther…

    Nola Stat 0
  • French Quarter trash negotiations could use some freshening up
    1020 days ago

    What’s the exact number of French Quarter small businesses, single-family dwellings, and multi-family dwellings with four or fewer units that…

    Nola Stat 0
  • TechStat teaches skills that promote good government
    1020 days ago

    The NolaStat report has offered a treatment of the TechStat approach used to manage IT projects in the District of…

    Nola Stat 0
  • A primer on UCR crime statistics
    1025 days ago

    What’s a UCR? Find out by reading this informative presentation by retired NOPD Sgt. Jimmy Gallagher (PDF).

    Nola Stat 0
  • “Bad choices based on bad options”
    1029 days ago

    Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed that all city workers take 11 unpaid furlough days this year in order to help balance…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Tensions rise between street musicians and the NOPD in the French Quarter
    1068 days ago

    Don’t Stop the Music. Let New Orleans Street Musicians Play is a newly-formed advocacy effort to support street musicians who…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Garbage in, garbage out
    1081 days ago

    New Orleans remains the most blighted city in America. The factors that produced an estimated 57,000 blighted properties are historic…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Landrieu reforms budget process
    1083 days ago

    Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued an executive order yesterday to create a more “transparent and accountable process” for producing the annual…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mayor Landrieu to adopt NolaStat open data recommendation
    1085 days ago

    It’s become clear since his May 3rd inauguration that Mayor Landrieu will be adopting a performance management policy, like Baltimore’s…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Time to transition from advocacy to action
    1093 days ago

    The Times-Picayune story about Mitch’s policy shift toward a statistical approach to governance read like the NolaStat policy research paper.…

    Nola Stat 0
  • City Business: ‘Nasty decisions’ expected from city’s interim tech chief
    1093 days ago

    New Orleans City Business reporter Jennifer Larino wrote an excellent article a couple of weeks ago on the reforms Mayor…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Victory
    1096 days ago

    More than three years after creating Citizen Crime Watch to advocate for improved public access to 911 calls for service…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Questions & answers about the NOPD COMSTAT process
    1097 days ago

    What is the New Orleans Police Department’s COMSTAT process? What should we know about it, and how should we evaluate…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Cooking the books? Or just sloppy journalism?
    1100 days ago

    I don’t wish to be placed in the position of being an apologist for any public official’s misdeeds. On the…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Serpas sounding like a NolaStat supporter
    1103 days ago

    In an address delivered at his swearing in ceremony on Tuesday, newly-appointed New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas sounded…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Civil service reform recommendation calls for more agile human resources management
    1103 days ago

    The civil service system used in New Orleans city government is decades behind the times, and is in desperate need…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch looking at reform models in other cities
    1109 days ago

    Mayor Landrieu is looking at performance management models in other city, he said today on WWL. Among the models he…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Ronal Serpas is an excellent choice for NOPD police chief
    1110 days ago

    As a civilian tech who supported the New Orleans Police Department COMSTAT process during the reform period of Superintendent Richard…

    Nola Stat 0
  • CAO/Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin elaborates on the adoption of a New Orleans performance management process
    1111 days ago

    Mayor Mitch Landrieu has announced that he will implement a performance management process — similar to Baltimore’s CitiStat model —…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Better data will build a better city
    1117 days ago

    A third NolaStat opinion piece published in The Times-Picayune calls for incoming Mayor Mitch Landrieu to commit to an open…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Neighborhood leaders learn how NolaStat supports citizen participation
    1117 days ago

    A presentation delivered to Neighborhoods Partnership Network members on April 21st. The handout can be downloaded here (PDF).

    Nola Stat 0
  • data + sharing = intelligence
    1118 days ago

    Florida recently launched a data-sharing system involving eight state agencies: “Shared information is imperative to any successful organization, especially one…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch sounding like a NolaStat supporter
    1119 days ago

    Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu, on Tavis Smiley (PBS, 4/26/2010): New Orleans is going to be a laboratory for innovation and change.…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Governing for excellence through a budget crisis
    1120 days ago

    “I will inherit a city that is in financial trouble,” Landrieu said. “I think the public is going to be…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch’s Transition Team is looking for an interim Chief Information Officer
    1120 days ago

    (INTERIM) CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (PDF) Like no other American city, New Orleans is reinventing itself from…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Governing for Outcomes
    1122 days ago

    “If information was used to make policy changes, they came about as a result of yearly reviews. Implementation took months,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • New Orleans is a beacon of hope and transformation
    1122 days ago

    Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu, to an audience of professionals at the American Planning Association conference (The Times-Picayune, 4/19/2010): The people of…

    Nola Stat 0
  • NolaStat on WWL TV’s Eyewitness News
    1123 days ago

    A moment in time that helped to raise awareness of the NolaStat reform — this was WWL TV reporter Scott…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Data on-line could jump-start activism
    1123 days ago

    Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu announced yesterday that he’s tapped former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams as a corporate leadership consultant. Williams’ leadership…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Governing by shoestring
    1124 days ago

    Councilwoman Stacy Head said on WIST 690 AM that Mitch Landrieu will be inaugurated as Mayor with more than six…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Copy-and-paste open government
    1125 days ago

    “Within 120 days, each agency shall develop and publish … an Open Government Plan that will describe how it will…

    Nola Stat 0
  • National technology award given to CitiStat creator
    1126 days ago

    Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has been awarded the 2010 National Technology Champion Award from the National Association of State Chief…

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  • Ensuring that task force recommendations are implemented
    1130 days ago

    Mitch’s task forces align well with the NolaStat model for engaging departments in collaborative initiatives. Stat-driven accountability processes work better…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Case Study: How NolaStat can improve constituent relations in City Hall
    1131 days ago

    A list of the most common complaints submitted to City Council Members: 1) Street lights. 2) Water Leaks—which go to…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Case Study: How NolaStat can improve citizen satisfaction with City Hall
    1140 days ago

    Last week’s customer satisfaction task force hearing offered some excellent boilerplate complaints about how New Orleans City Hall functions, and…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Whither electronic police reports?
    1158 days ago

    The NOPD said in 2007 that electronic police reports were just months away from being implemented, yet in the MTV…

    Nola Stat 0
  • How do we eliminate bloated insider contracts?
    1160 days ago

    As demonstrated in recent years by cost overruns and project failures with crime cameras as the 311 system, any investment…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Like using scribes in the age of the printing press to answer public records requests
    1160 days ago

    There’s something wrong when it takes over four months to obtain a murder listing from the New Orleans Police Department,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • New Orleans open government in just one day
    1165 days ago

    You could be sending 311 complaints to city officials, and receiving 311 updates, using Facebook and Twitter, in just about…

    Nola Stat 0
  • The manipulation of statistics denies victims their right to justice
    1166 days ago

    The next New Orleans police chief should allow for Independent audits of crime statistics. That will be a recommendation delivered…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch: “The best ideas come from people in neighborhoods”
    1166 days ago

    “I understand that often times the best ideas come from people in neighborhoods across the city.” A refreshingly enlightened perspective…

    Nola Stat 0
  • “To help and defend”
    1168 days ago

    New Orleans citizens didn’t need any confirmation pf their fear that rogue behavior was a metastasizing throughout the NOPD when…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election map: How Guidry defeated Batt
    1170 days ago

    The key to Susan Guidry’s victory over Jay Batt was two-fold: 1) Batt lost more voters between the primary and…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election map: Susan Guidry defeats Jay Batt in District A runoff
    1171 days ago

    Attorney and neighborhood organizer Susan Guidry soundly defeated Jay Batt in the March 6th runoff for the District A City…

    Nola Stat 0
  • The top 25 government innovators
    1175 days ago

    Government Technology’s March issue focuses on 25 people who cut through the public sector’s infamous barriers to innovation — tight…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Seattle CIO implements open data policy
    1175 days ago

    Seattle is the next city to follow in the footsteps of open data reforms implemented by San Francisco, New York…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Improving return on investment in government IT procurement
    1181 days ago

    President Obama’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has initiated a new accountability process to reduce waste and manage the success…

    Nola Stat 0
  • New Orleans 311 problems finally resolved
    1185 days ago

    After spending millions of taxpayer dollars to professional services contractors, in a secret bidding and award process, on the city’s…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Management by hunches hurts those who most need help
    1187 days ago

    In a city with a low-wage economy, those most hurt by government mismanagement and inefficiency are the working poor.  Now,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election maps: New Orleans City Council District races
    1188 days ago

    Final election maps — the February 6th, 2010 City Council races: District A District B District C District D District…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election map: City Council At-Large race
    1192 days ago

    The City Council At-Large race is an election in which the winners are the top two vote earners whose totals…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election map: Race for a single assessor
    1198 days ago

    In the race for to elect a single assessor for the first time in New Orleans history, reform candidate Janis…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Congratulations Mitch!
    1199 days ago

    The election of Mitch as mayor was a landslide. In the election map completed for NolaStat (3 megabyte PDF download),…

    Nola Stat 0
  • The Apps for Democracy how-to guide
    1209 days ago

    Peter Corbett, the CEO of iStrategyLabs, has published a step-by-step guide on how to re-purpose city data with innovative applications…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Which mayoral candidate would offer the most open government?
    1220 days ago

    All candidates stated their support for making documents and contracts subject to the state’s public records law, at last night’s…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Which candidates understand this central lesson of Katrina recovery?
    1230 days ago

    Which candidates understand the lesson of Katrina recovery — that by their very nature, disasters overwhelm the capacity of government,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • As we cheer on the Saints in the playoffs, it’s worth remembering …
    1232 days ago

    It’s worth remembering that Arnie Fielkow’s leadership was key to keeping the Saints in New Orleans. “As a former six-year,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Improving waste reduction and performance outcomes requires regular review and relentless followup
    1232 days ago

    Here’s a prediction about Bobby Jindal’s Commission on Streamlining Government recommendations: They will prove to be too little to make…

    Nola Stat 0
  • President Obama harnessing the power of data to create better policy, and higher performing government services
    1233 days ago

    “Whether it’s health care, education or even the war in Afghanistan, the president and his team are big believers in…

    Nola Stat 0
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  • Election map: Susan Guidry defeats Jay Batt in District A runoff
    1171 days ago

    Attorney and neighborhood organizer Susan Guidry soundly defeated Jay Batt in the March 6th runoff for the District A City…

    Nola Stat 0
  • “Be hard on the problem, soft on the people”
    1019 days ago

    Mitch Landrieu set a tone for discourse at last night’s neighborhood meeting on budget priorities at a packed Martin Luther…

    Nola Stat 0
  • NolaStat 2011
    870 days ago

    Dear friends, It was just a year ago when a few New Orleans idea leaders who supported NolaStat met at…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Governing for Outcomes
    1122 days ago

    “If information was used to make policy changes, they came about as a result of yearly reviews. Implementation took months,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Copy-and-paste open government
    1125 days ago

    “Within 120 days, each agency shall develop and publish … an Open Government Plan that will describe how it will…

    Nola Stat 0
  • A brief NolaStat analysis of the Xavier mayoral forum
    1251 days ago

    It might be an exaggerated claim by WDSU to suggest that the candidates “squared off” at the mayoral forum hosted…

    Nola Stat 0
  • “The government doesn’t have a monopoly on the best ideas.”
    1244 days ago

    “The government doesn’t have a monopoly on the best ideas. We look forward to unleashing the creativity of the American…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Serpas sounding like a NolaStat supporter
    1103 days ago

    In an address delivered at his swearing in ceremony on Tuesday, newly-appointed New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas sounded…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Criminal justice reform mayoral forum
    1251 days ago

    Nola Stat 0
  • CAO/Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin elaborates on the adoption of a New Orleans performance management process
    1111 days ago

    Mayor Mitch Landrieu has announced that he will implement a performance management process — similar to Baltimore’s CitiStat model —…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Garbage in, garbage out
    1081 days ago

    New Orleans remains the most blighted city in America. The factors that produced an estimated 57,000 blighted properties are historic…

    Nola Stat 0
  • New Orleans is a beacon of hope and transformation
    1122 days ago

    Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu, to an audience of professionals at the American Planning Association conference (The Times-Picayune, 4/19/2010): The people of…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Listen to the City Council District A candidate forum
    1252 days ago

    Hosted by WVUE reporter, Lee Zurik. The District A City Council candidates are Jay Batt, Virginia Blanque, Suzie Guidry, and…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Which candidates understand this central lesson of Katrina recovery?
    1230 days ago

    Which candidates understand the lesson of Katrina recovery — that by their very nature, disasters overwhelm the capacity of government,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • New Orleans open government in just one day
    1165 days ago

    You could be sending 311 complaints to city officials, and receiving 311 updates, using Facebook and Twitter, in just about…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Even if you couldn’t care less about your brethren, you have to support NolaStat out of self interest to lower your taxes
    1235 days ago

    Mayoral candidate Rob Couhig is polling whether residents are willing to pay higher taxes, or accept reduced services (http://bit.ly/8M5tOb). There’s…

    Nola Stat 0
  • New Orleans 311 problems finally resolved
    1185 days ago

    After spending millions of taxpayer dollars to professional services contractors, in a secret bidding and award process, on the city’s…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Management by hunches hurts those who most need help
    1187 days ago

    In a city with a low-wage economy, those most hurt by government mismanagement and inefficiency are the working poor.  Now,…

    Nola Stat 0
  • data + sharing = intelligence
    1118 days ago

    Florida recently launched a data-sharing system involving eight state agencies: “Shared information is imperative to any successful organization, especially one…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Tensions rise between street musicians and the NOPD in the French Quarter
    1068 days ago

    Don’t Stop the Music. Let New Orleans Street Musicians Play is a newly-formed advocacy effort to support street musicians who…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election map: City Council At-Large race
    1192 days ago

    The City Council At-Large race is an election in which the winners are the top two vote earners whose totals…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Governing by shoestring
    1124 days ago

    Councilwoman Stacy Head said on WIST 690 AM that Mitch Landrieu will be inaugurated as Mayor with more than six…

    Nola Stat 0
  • French Quarter trash negotiations could use some freshening up
    1020 days ago

    What’s the exact number of French Quarter small businesses, single-family dwellings, and multi-family dwellings with four or fewer units that…

    Nola Stat 0
  • The top 25 government innovators
    1175 days ago

    Government Technology’s March issue focuses on 25 people who cut through the public sector’s infamous barriers to innovation — tight…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Data on-line could jump-start activism
    1123 days ago

    Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu announced yesterday that he’s tapped former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams as a corporate leadership consultant. Williams’ leadership…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch looking at reform models in other cities
    1109 days ago

    Mayor Landrieu is looking at performance management models in other city, he said today on WWL. Among the models he…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Eric Asher talks about the NolaStat Policy Reform on 690 AM
    1336 days ago

    Listen here If you go to the WIST archive, the interview starts at about 25 minutes into the…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Question sent to Norm Robinson for the Xavier mayoral forum
    1253 days ago

    Xavier mayoral debate question suggestion. Norm, I have a debate question to recommend: There is currently a NolaStat performance management…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Civil service reform recommendation calls for more agile human resources management
    1103 days ago

    The civil service system used in New Orleans city government is decades behind the times, and is in desperate need…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Not just about getting potholes fixed
    1247 days ago

    Stat-driven performance management isn’t just about getting potholes fixed. It’s also about improving the quality of life. The Results Minneapolis…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Congratulations Mitch!
    1199 days ago

    The election of Mitch as mayor was a landslide. In the election map completed for NolaStat (3 megabyte PDF download),…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election maps: New Orleans City Council District races
    1188 days ago

    Final election maps — the February 6th, 2010 City Council races: District A District B District C District D District…

    Nola Stat 0
  • The manipulation of statistics denies victims their right to justice
    1166 days ago

    The next New Orleans police chief should allow for Independent audits of crime statistics. That will be a recommendation delivered…

    Nola Stat 0
  • A primer on UCR crime statistics
    1025 days ago

    What’s a UCR? Find out by reading this informative presentation by retired NOPD Sgt. Jimmy Gallagher (PDF).

    Nola Stat 0
  • Governments are asking and citizens are telling
    1248 days ago

    The San Jose Mobile City Hall was launched on December 15th as a free download from the Apple iTunes store.…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Election map: Race for a single assessor
    1198 days ago

    In the race for to elect a single assessor for the first time in New Orleans history, reform candidate Janis…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Improving return on investment in government IT procurement
    1181 days ago

    President Obama’s Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has initiated a new accountability process to reduce waste and manage the success…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Meet the Candidate: Troy Henry
    1235 days ago

    NolaStat will be attending the Troy Henry Meet the Candidate event today from 3-5 at Cafe Rose Nicaud on Frenchmen…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Can we “get an app for that” in New Orleans?
    1239 days ago

    John Sutter, “Cities embrace mobile apps, ‘Gov 2.0′,” CNN.com: Newmark pulled out his iPhone, snapped a photo of the train…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Seattle CIO implements open data policy
    1175 days ago

    Seattle is the next city to follow in the footsteps of open data reforms implemented by San Francisco, New York…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Time to transition from advocacy to action
    1093 days ago

    The Times-Picayune story about Mitch’s policy shift toward a statistical approach to governance read like the NolaStat policy research paper.…

    Nola Stat 0
  • “I can’t wait until it challenges and infuriates the bureaucracy.”
    1260 days ago

    Claire Cain Miller, “Local Governments Offer Data to Software Tinkerers,” The New York Times, December 6, 2009: “It will change…

    Nola Stat 0
  • San Francisco improves public access to data by executive order
    1244 days ago

    Inspired by President Obama’s Open Government Initiative, the D.C. Digital Public Square, and other developments around the country, Mayor Gavin…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Whither electronic police reports?
    1158 days ago

    The NOPD said in 2007 that electronic police reports were just months away from being implemented, yet in the MTV…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch sounding like a NolaStat supporter
    1119 days ago

    Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu, on Tavis Smiley (PBS, 4/26/2010): New Orleans is going to be a laboratory for innovation and change.…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Questions & answers about the NOPD COMSTAT process
    1097 days ago

    What is the New Orleans Police Department’s COMSTAT process? What should we know about it, and how should we evaluate…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch: “The best ideas come from people in neighborhoods”
    1166 days ago

    “I understand that often times the best ideas come from people in neighborhoods across the city.” A refreshingly enlightened perspective…

    Nola Stat 0
  • NolaStat on WWL TV’s Eyewitness News
    1123 days ago

    A moment in time that helped to raise awareness of the NolaStat reform — this was WWL TV reporter Scott…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Victory
    1096 days ago

    More than three years after creating Citizen Crime Watch to advocate for improved public access to 911 calls for service…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Landrieu reforms budget process
    1083 days ago

    Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued an executive order yesterday to create a more “transparent and accountable process” for producing the annual…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Improving waste reduction and performance outcomes requires regular review and relentless followup
    1232 days ago

    Here’s a prediction about Bobby Jindal’s Commission on Streamlining Government recommendations: They will prove to be too little to make…

    Nola Stat 0
  • “To help and defend”
    1168 days ago

    New Orleans citizens didn’t need any confirmation pf their fear that rogue behavior was a metastasizing throughout the NOPD when…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Case Study: How NolaStat can improve citizen satisfaction with City Hall
    1140 days ago

    Last week’s customer satisfaction task force hearing offered some excellent boilerplate complaints about how New Orleans City Hall functions, and…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Ensuring that task force recommendations are implemented
    1130 days ago

    Mitch’s task forces align well with the NolaStat model for engaging departments in collaborative initiatives. Stat-driven accountability processes work better…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Ronal Serpas is an excellent choice for NOPD police chief
    1110 days ago

    As a civilian tech who supported the New Orleans Police Department COMSTAT process during the reform period of Superintendent Richard…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Inaugural city NolaStat meeting begins new era for New Orleans city government
    920 days ago

    Dear NolaStat supporters, The very first NolaStat meeting in the City of New Orleans took place last Thursday. NolaStat is…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mitch’s Transition Team is looking for an interim Chief Information Officer
    1120 days ago

    (INTERIM) CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (PDF) Like no other American city, New Orleans is reinventing itself from…

    Nola Stat 0
  • Mayoral candidates sound off on the Office of the Inspector General
    1250 days ago

    A mayoral forum hosted by the Pelican Institute, now available on Vimeo.

    Nola Stat 0
  • President Obama harnessing the power of data to create better policy, and higher performing government services
    1233 days ago

    “Whether it’s health care, education or even the war in Afghanistan, the president and his team are big believers in…

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  • Mayor Landrieu to adopt NolaStat open data recommendation
    1085 days ago

    It’s become clear since his May 3rd inauguration that Mayor Landrieu will be adopting a performance management policy, like Baltimore’s…

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  • D.C. officials announce the opening of a 311 system API for application developers
    1407 days ago

    D.C. officials are touting the Open 311 system as the first of its kind in the world: Today District of…

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  • Governing for excellence through a budget crisis
    1120 days ago

    “I will inherit a city that is in financial trouble,” Landrieu said. “I think the public is going to be…

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  • “Bad choices based on bad options”
    1029 days ago

    Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed that all city workers take 11 unpaid furlough days this year in order to help balance…

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  • Case Study: How NolaStat can improve constituent relations in City Hall
    1131 days ago

    A list of the most common complaints submitted to City Council Members: 1) Street lights. 2) Water Leaks—which go to…

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  • Better data will build a better city
    1117 days ago

    A third NolaStat opinion piece published in The Times-Picayune calls for incoming Mayor Mitch Landrieu to commit to an open…

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  • A NolaStat review of the 2009 New Orleans budget process
    1308 days ago

    Although not officially released yet, the October 2nd Inspector General’s report on the New Orleans 2009 budget process (previously leaked…

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  • Which mayoral candidate would offer the most open government?
    1220 days ago

    All candidates stated their support for making documents and contracts subject to the state’s public records law, at last night’s…

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  • Neighborhood leaders learn how NolaStat supports citizen participation
    1117 days ago

    A presentation delivered to Neighborhoods Partnership Network members on April 21st. The handout can be downloaded here (PDF).

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  • Standing room only at the city’s second BlightStat meeting
    914 days ago

    Judging from the standing-room-only meeting space for the second New Orleans “BlightStat” meeting, public interest in the city’s new statistics-driven…

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  • IT dashboard halts 45 wasteful Veteran’s Affairs projects
    1403 days ago

    The Department of Veteran’s affairs halted 45 IT projects totaling $200 million in fiscal year 2009 alone, the nation’s Chief…

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  • City Business: ‘Nasty decisions’ expected from city’s interim tech chief
    1093 days ago

    New Orleans City Business reporter Jennifer Larino wrote an excellent article a couple of weeks ago on the reforms Mayor…

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  • An engine for increasing the velocity of democracy
    1246 days ago

    It’s an accepted truth that a healthy democracy requires citizens who participate in the civic life of their communities, and…

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