This is heavy news: New Orleans Inspector General Robert Cerasoli quits post, citing health issues
Robert Cerasoli, the veteran Massachusetts investigator who navigated a maze of bureaucracy and politics to found the New Orleans inspector general’s office, will resign today to reunite with his family and prepare for surgery to remove potentially dangerous growths.
I’m terribly sorry to see him go. He fought hard for our city – harder than most N’awlins natives, in fact. I guess we’ll see who they get to replace him, but I can’t help but think – plus ca change…
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. …But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio. – Lafcadio Hearn, 1879
