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  1. "City Council inset". Times-Picayune Saint Tammany Edition (print version only). 2010-05-03. pp. B2.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Stacy Head has rubbed some people the wrong way, but supporters say her brash style is misunderstood". New Orleans Times-Picayune Saint Tammany Edition. 2009-04-09. pp. A1, A4 –A5. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
  3. Peoplesearch.com information on Stacy Head.
  4. Laureen Lentz, "Stacy Head, City Council District B: A leader for the heart of the city" on New Orleans Metblogs, 2006 March 31. Cf. the contest between Jay Batt and Shelley Stephenson Midura in District A. In May 2009 Gill Pratt—along with Mose Jefferson, Betty Jefferson, and Angela Jefferson Coleman—was indicted on federal racketeering charges. Within a week after the indictment, John Pope, in the Times-Picayune ("Gill Pratt named to SUNO Cabinet" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 28, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. A1, A11; web version = Gill Pratt will sit on SUNO Cabinet), described Mose Jefferson as "Gill Pratt's longtime companion"—a situation noted as being "as close as it gets" by columnist Stephanie Grace ("All in the Jefferson family" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 28, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B7).
  5. "Whose shoes are these anyway?: Stacy Head's emails, Tracie Washington's protest: Ain't no mess like a NOLA mess" posted 2009 May 16 (accessed 2009 May 22). Cf. earlier allegations regarding Head's personality: "Stacy Head...yada yada yada" posted by Ashley Morris on 2007 July 11; "Stacy Head doesn't want you to save your seat" posted on Humid Haney Rant (accessed 2009 May 22) and the rejoinder "Stacy Head: Ambassador for New Orleans" posted 2008 April 29.
  6. City issues garbage pickup report,[ permanent dead link ] New Orleans CityBusiness , 2008 December 29 (accessed 2009 March 18).
  7. Council and Mayor's Office at odds over garbage 'audit' Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine reported by Bigad Shaban on 2008 December 9 (accessed 2009 March 18). Continuing story with photograph from a Council meeting = WWL TV: Stacy Head vows to forge on, despite political backlash, Times-Picayune, 2009 March 18 (accessed 2009 March 19).
  8. David Hammer, Source: Feds take possession of Veronica White's computers, Times-Picayune (New Orleans), 2009 March 13 (accessed 2009 March 18).
  9. Becky Bohrer, "Spotlight on New Orleans transparency" in Daily Star [Hammond, Louisiana], 2009 March 31, p. 4A, same as Spotlight on transparency in New Orleans). [ permanent dead link ]
  10. Jarvis DeBerry, If it's private, don't send it in your e-mail, Times-Picayune, 2009 March 13 (accessed 2009 March 19).
  11. Steven J. Lane, Use of e-mail unavoidable in the 21st century, Times-Picayune, 2009 March 19, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B6 (web site accessed 2009 March 19). DeBerry (Lawyer might try looking up 'disclosure') Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine rejoined on April 5 (Times-Picayune, Saint Tammany Edition, "Other Opinions" page); Lane retaliated on April 11 (Mail must be vetted for privileged information, Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Times-Picayune, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4).
  12. Jarvis DeBerry, "Council's e-mails a long time coming" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 8, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B7. DeBerry returned to the theme on 2009 May 18, calling Lane "Dr. Privilege" for declaring "just about everything privileged" (Jarvis DeBerry, "Dr. Privilege: Council's lawyer has the Rx for embarrassing correspondence" Archived 2009-05-19 at the Wayback Machine in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 18, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B5.
  13. Michelle Krupa, "Review of N.O. council's e-mail expected to take a year" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 27, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. B1, B2 (quotation from Landrieu is on p. B2); web version = Lengthy review of e-mail forecast/.
  14. "A puzzling request" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 29, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B6 (editorial page).
  15. Bruce Eggler, "Stacy Head's e-mails briefly released on website" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 14.
  16. Michelle Krupa, "Clarkson dismisses degrading comments made in e-mail flap").
  17. Bruce Eggler, TV station receives council e-mails in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 16, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. A1, A5.
  18. Bruce Eggler, Stacy Head fires back at critics, says she will release her own e-mails).
  19. Charlene Comstock-Galagan, "Sidewalks are impassable"
  20. Letters supporting Head: K. McCrocklin, "Glad Head speaks her mind"; Pat McKinney, "Official will pay for indiscretion"; Mandy Foster, e-mail used for good, too; David Eidler, Bottom line: Effectiveness; Steven J. Lane, City Council wants to review, release e-mails; Thaddeo Babiiha "Let the e-mail thing go"; Polly Henderson, "Head is a good public servant"
  21. Letters opposing Head: Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc, Judgmental e-mail, reaction are disheartening; John Scurich, Just buy your own computer; Laurie Dennery Molnar, Why so quick to judge?; Alonquin Brown, Suspicions on Head confirmed; Terri Troncale, The food police;; Esther Braxton, "Campaign e-mail raises flag"
  22. James Gill, Will semi-literate e-mails spell doom???? in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 17, Metro Edition, p. B5. On 2009 May 21 the Times-Picayune editorial cartoon by Steve Skelley displayed a little girl pointing to her brother and telling her mother: "Billy used Stacy Head language again" (Saint Tammany Edition, p. B6).
  23. Bruce Eggler & Frank Donze, "Head posts first batch of e-mail" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 19, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. A1, A7 (web version = "Councilwoman Stacy Head begins releasing e-mails"). Fourteen of her e-mails first appeared on Head's web site (accessed 2009 May 18). See also Jarvis DeBerry, in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 19, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B5 (web version = Stacy Head's e-mails unflattering, incomplete"). The attention to Head's e-mails gave society columnist Chris Rose satirical occasion to begin "releasing" his own fictitious e-mail messages to fellow columnist Sheila Stroup about fellow columnist Angus Lind; Rose "made public" the first such message on 2009 May 19 (Chris Rose, "The Chris Rose e-mails" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 19, Saint Tammany Edition, p. C1; web version = "Chris Rose releases first e-mail: more to come"). The following day, setting the tone for a series, Rose continued to parody Head's e-mail style, but with Stroup as the addressee and Lind as the subject—"Chris Rose releases second e-mail" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 20.
  24. Stacy Head speaks out on e-mail controversy. Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine That WDSU web site (accessed 2009 May 20) contains an audiovisual link in which Head speaks and Washington briefly appears.
  25. Michelle Krupa, "Stacy Head's e-mail details hostility" in Times-Picayune, 2009 June 25, Metro Edition, p. A1.
  26. Michelle Krupa & Frank Donze, "N.O. assessor wants no part of council flap" in Times-Picayune, 2009 June 27, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B3.
  27. Head quoted in Jarvis DeBerry, "Expecting apology from Head? Good luck" in Times-Picayune, 2009 July 05, Metro Edition, p. B5. Head further denied that she had even met Washington individually; Washington claimed that they two had met in July 2006 and "that their initial meetings were pleasant" (quoted in Jarvis DeBerry, "At least they're sure they don't agree" in Times-Picayune, 2009 July 07, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B5).
  28. Linda Heimann, Is e-mail Riley's imagination? in Times-Picayune, 2010 January 14, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B6.
  29. As noted by Michelle Krupa & Frank Donze in their Anh 'Joseph' Cao beats Rep. William Jefferson in 2nd Congressional District (Times-Picayune, 2008 December 7 [accessed 2009 March 18]), both Head and her City Council colleague Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson, also a Democrat, attended Cao's victory celebration. Clarkson, a councilwoman-at-large who is more-entrenched than Head in the New Orleans political scene, has faced no recall petition, which would require a more-extensive undertaking because Clarkson's district is coterminous with the city itself.
  30. "Black Community Fires Back At Stacy Head: Head Targeted For Heated Arguments Between Lawmakers" Archived 2011-09-06 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 2009 May 18).
  31. Jay Arena, The Unmasking of N.O. Councilman James Carter, 2008 August 08.
  32. Black Residents Defend Stacy Head Amid Recall: Local Group Claims City Council Member Is Racist Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine , 2009 March 9 (accessed 2009 March 18). A few days after the drive to recall Head began, an online petition to dismiss White started. See also Deon Roberts, A petition to remove Veronica White, New Orleans CityBusiness, 2008 November 24 (accessed 2009 March 25). WDSU also claimed that White might not be on an arm's length basis from Suber, in that one of White's Sanitation Department employees, Donald Berryhill, had been assisting CATG ("TV Report: Veronica White may have ties to Stacy Head recall effort" in Times-Picayune, 2009 March 13); the charge against Berryhill was later voided ("Officer cleared in Head recall: Sanitation cop seen at rally against her" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 15).
  33. Gill's column—which appeared in the print edition of the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) on 2009 March 18, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B5—touched off hundreds of rambunctious comments on its blog site before day's end on the column's publication. To read them, click here. Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine Cao also faced a recall petition; see attempt to recall Cao. A petition to recall the mayor of suburban Mandeville, Louisiana, amidst controversies unrelated to racial politics in New Orleans per se, failed in February 2009; see the article on Eddie Price Jr.
  34. Three days after Nolan's article, a letter to the editor supported Head and took particular issue with allegations that she had been racist; the letter indicated that Head had actually supplemented the Sanitation Department by personally taking time to collect trash in her district (George Kadair III, Focus on the real issues, Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Times-Picayune, 2009 April 12, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4).
  35. Frank Donze & Michelle Krupa, "Head hunters miss the mark in recall attempt" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 09, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B3. Donze & Krupa fittingly render the quotation in the context of the recall attempt's failure, but Head had actually made the comment a few days after the recall petition began.
  36. Michelle Krupa & Frank Donze, "Election could shake up dynamics on N.O. council" in Times-Picayune, 2009 July 23, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. B1, B2 (statement about Head's re-election situation is on p. B2).
  37. Michelle Krupa & Frank Donze, "Landrieu landslide" in Times-Picayune, 2010 February 7, Metro Edition, pp. A1, A8-A10 (not online); see also Michelle Krupa, "Corey Watson, son of Uptown minister Tom Watson, to challenge Stacy Head for City Council seat" in Times-Picayune, 2009 December 3 (accessed 2010 February 7), and Louisiana Secretary of State election returns for Orleans District B Archived 2010-02-10 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 2010 February 7).
  38. Donze, Frank (2010-10-13). "Assessor hands Cao his nod from afar". Times-Picayune. p. A7. Archived from the original on 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  39. Michelle Krupa, Nagin says official 'followed policy' Archived 2009-03-22 at the Wayback Machine in Times-Picayune, 2009 March 21, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. A1, A7 (Nagin quoted on p. A7). Krupa, ibid., inserted at the end of her article (p. A7), Nagin's initial response to WDSU-TV's news anchor Norman Robinson on the 4-month suspension of Boyd's predecessor, Anthony Jones, who had filed inflated bills for controversial crime cameras and violated Louisiana ethics laws in accepting paid travel to a Colorado conference "from a contractor that earned millions on the camera project in a no-bid arrangement"; said Nagin:
    obviously there's some poor judgment in those actions . . . , most likely possibly an ethics violation. . . . I'm not sure whether there's anything criminal, but I'm sure the feds will look into it.
  40. "Nagin is the serious e-mail offender" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 19, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B5.
  41. Details and sources in the Jefferson article.
  42. James Gill, "Is Jefferson a factor in City Hall feud?" Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 22, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B7. The online version shows Jefferson embracing Washington at a town hall meeting in 2007 at Trinity Episcopal Church, perhaps ironically Head's congregation.
  43. For details and sources on Jefferson's trial, see the Mose Jefferson article.
  44. Laura Maggi, "Guilty on 4 counts: In a split verdict, Mose Jefferson is convicted" in Times-Picayune, 2009 August 22, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. A1, A6.
  45. Bruce Eggler & Michelle Krupa, "Six of one" in Times-Picayune, 2009 August 1, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B3. Cf. the article on Ray Nagin.
  46. Krupa, Michelle (2012-02-06). "For many, there is such a thing as free water: S&WB gives it away to public entities". Times-Picayune. No. Metro Edition. pp. A1, A3. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-06. A mugshot of Head appears on p. A3, with "Stacy Head Says the S&WB's giveaway encourages institutions to waste water" as the caption.
  47. Eggler, Bruce (2012-06-30). "Head ruffles some colleagues' feathers". Times-Picayune. No. Metro Edition. p. B3. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
  48. Grice, Jim (2012-07-04). "Short memories on the city council". Times-Picayune. No. Saint Tammany Edition. p. B6. Retrieved 2012-07-05.Cf. this article written at a time when George's "appointment" by Head was viewed as a fait accompli: Krupa, Michelle (2012-04-28). "Stacy Head chooses Errol George to temporarily fill Districtg B seat on New Orleans city council". Times-Picayune. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
  49. 1 2 "Stacy Head: About". stacyhead.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
Stacy Head
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Stacy Head
President New Orleans City Council
In office
2012 June 2017