With New Orleans almost entirely underwater following catostrophic levee breaks at three seperate locations, it was chaos in the city. People left stranded, widespread looting, and even rampant ...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is term-limited ... Take 2010, when Mitch Landrieu was elected to succeed Ray Nagin. That year there was a back-to-business vibe after a depressingly chaotic ...

New Orleans voters head to the polls Saturday to choose between incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in a race that will determine the future leadership of a changing city still ...

At minimum, FEMA needs a major overhaul. A trimmed down agency with a sharpened, more nimble focus would then need a strong leader such as Lt. Gen. Honoré. To use a more recent example, FEMA needs a ...

Gen. Russel Honoré took charge in New Orleans. Mayor C. Ray Nagin called General Honoré “a John Wayne dude” who “came off the doggone chopper and started cussing and people started moving.” ...

When New Orleans was overrun by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, resulting in devastating damage and hundreds of deaths, the mayor, C. Ray Nagin, stepped forward to lead his city through the crisis ...

There’s the analogy of the mayor. Karen Bass was in Ghana when ... That isn’t so different from the performance of New Orleans’s Ray Nagin, who camped out in a suite at the Hyatt Regency ...

And while Ray Nagin, New Orleans mayor, won another stint in office in 2006 despite the devastation inflicted on the city by Hurricane Katrina, he was given a boost by the botched federal response.

In 2013, former Democratic New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted on charges that he’d used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while ...