State of the city? Disarray, mayor says
by Stephanie Grace - Times-Picayune (excerpt)

Remember the Mitch Landrieu who ran for mayor in 2006, the guy who could never quite bring himself to take the gloves off in his failed campaign against Ray Nagin? If not, you may be out of luck, because four years and one decisive electoral victory later, Landrieu has clearly shed any qualms about criticizing the man he replaced. Landrieu's first State of the City address last week offered the usual inspirational rhetoric, but the speech was more remarkable for its bluntness. Without mentioning his predecessor by name, the new mayor unloaded on Nagin's oversight. Landrieu labeled the Nagin administration "dysfunctional," and said it mismanaged the budget "from top to bottom."