Finally the Times-Picayune runs a story on erroneous demolitions. I can’t help but get the feeling they only did this because the Wall Street Journal scooped them yesterday. It should have been on the Times-Pic’s front page two weeks ago.
Furthermore, they still got it wrong. The headline in the paper (but not online) states that property owners are angry because they’re getting “demolition notices.” But that’s the whole problem — people are not being notified.
That is correct. And in fact Willow was told by her Neighbors.
I find that the copyeditors at the TP, who write headlines, consistently get the stories wrong.
[…] Update: The Times-Picayune covers the story in Protecting Their Own. They should have covered the story weeks ago. Instead, the cover it the day after the Wall Street Journal and they get the story wrong according to Bart Everson’s post Finally. […]