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“Friends of Eddie Price” fundraiser! OMG -this landed in my inbox and all I could say is….this is the funniest joke ever. Now please come over and put my jaw back in place as it has been on the floor since I found out it is for real. I am talking about a local fundraiser [...]

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VOTE VILLERE!!!!!! See my previous posts on this here and here. I could not resist sharing this little poem from the forums today (typos and all). 14670. Twas the Night Before Election by shoerack, 3/26/10 2:53 ET Twas the night before the election and all through the city all the creatures were stirring especially ole [...]

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Pass me the bucket and the boots Jack! And the Assessor, Core…well if you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem! Warning, this video will promote immediate gag reflexes…bucket should be handy! Way to find the back door and rob the citizens blind. You must be so proud. Here is the [...]

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Seems not everyone in Mandeville can be trusted under the assessment “honor system”. See here and here. Yes, this may have something to do with the Mandeville Mayor’s race and connecting dots…. As of right now, Casa de Perry is paying pretty high taxes because our home was assessed in 2007 when home prices were [...]

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4/21 edited for personal gain:) Hey a blogger needs to make money. Anybody but Trilby (copying a recent New Orleans council race campaign). A lot of people, including my husband, have asked who they should be voting for as the next Mayor of Mandeviile. If you dig back in my archives, you will see that [...]

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Ask ANY resident of Mandeville if corruption exists in this once sleepy bedroom community and their answer is always the same – YES. Our own Mayor has resigned, is in hot water and may do some time in the pokey. Now comes the scramble for the City Council to all wash their hands as we [...]

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Update 3:45 Saturday – A unanimous vote for our new Interim Mayor Mr. Bubby Lyons. This was the biggest dog and pony show I have ever seen!!!! The council should apologize for wasting all our time and the time of the 2 truly qualified applicants that were there- Mr. Glen Runyon and Mr. Ray Bass. [...]

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The Mayor of Mandeville, Eddie Price, resigned Friday, October 10th at a 4:30 press conference. There were no apologies as it is not his M.O. I still feel so terribly for the policemen that lost their job as a casualty of him and you would think he would at least owe them a public apology. [...]

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A reader sent me an article about how Hammond’s sewage has possibly caused some problems with the wetlands it was intended to help, by draining South of Pontchatoula as can be read about here. Now Mandeville plans to do something similar to hopefully stimulate a Tchefuncte marsh as reported by Doug Mouton here. I’m no [...]

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For those on the Northshore, or even the Southshore who have not been to Ruby’s Roadhouse in Mandeville, time to get up and go. Yours truly is not much one for going to bars and dancing these days (seems going out is limited to events). However, being that is a hop skip and a jump [...]

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