Why am I not surprised by this....
The city has always failed to talk to small business. Actually it's treated it's small business owners like an inconvenience....just something to get money from...and the city wonders why business is leaving Orleans Parish the Israeli's from Egypt.
Some New Orleans businesses not thrilled with NFL's arrival...Now I read this and I got a question.
...And while the excitement for the game is feverishly buidling in the city for the game, some New Orleans businesses and artists aren't wild about the pregame festivities.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune passes along some businesses around Jackson Square that are unhappy that the Square will be closed all day Wednesday and Thursday. And that no one told them about it until recently.
"Nobody came to us with any information whatsoever," one shop owner said. "We had to solicit it. We weren't consulted in any way. Basically the NFL was given free rein and had no restrictions whatsoever. This is disconcerting for the business owners and residents."
Most of the complaints were less about the concert and work disruption itself, and more about the lack of communication.
"I'm all in favor of promoting the city," gallery owner Louis Sahuc said. "But when you come into our front yard, we want you to invite us to the party."
The Heisman Trophy Trust is expected to strip former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush of college football’s top honor by the end of September, sources told Yahoo! Sports.OK...OJ Simpson gets away with two murders and still keeps his award if in name only (the actual trophy was awarded by a civil court to Nicole Brown Simpson) but Reggie takes cash, gifts and other impermissible benefits and loses his....again, to quote the Robot from Lost in Space, "It does not compute"
Bush would become the first player in the 75-year history of the award to have the trophy taken away. The NCAA found major violations in the Trojans’ football program in June and levied serious sanctions against the school....
...The Heisman trust has been conducting its own independent inquiry into Bush’s eligibility since the NCAA ruled in June that the USC star had committed multiple violations by accepting cash, gifts and other impermissible benefits while playing for the Trojans. Yahoo! Sports first detailed the extra benefits in September 2006. In its findings, the NCAA retroactively ruled Bush ineligible for part of the 2004 season and all of 2005. The NCAA also ordered the USC program to remove all references to Bush from its sporting venues and promotional materials and vacate his statistics from all games in which he was ineligible.
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