9 Quotes by Paula Brown

We didn't want to take any thing away from what New Orleans was doing. We didn't want New Orleans to feel like we were competing with them.

On the second Sunday of Mardi Gras, we had the largest turnout for those parades that we had ever seen on a Sunday. This Fat Tuesday's parade drew one of the largest crowds we've ever seen on any Fat Tuesday.

I have made it a practice since before I was elected to come into the station on a daily or nightly basis and I always check on the prisoners in the cell area to make sure everything's okay. I have not been able to do that because the powers that be are trying to restrict me from doing that. When things like this happen I have a major problem with that,

I got a message from (Police Chief Robert Smythe) saying a guy died in custody after struggling with officers,

It should have been on the front page of their Web site.

That is great news because this is kind of our make-or-break weekend for Mardi Gras this year.

They've literally flipped the weight. This has been such a shock to classroom teachers.

These people needed jobs. They were willing to work under very poor conditions.

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