Matt McBride

Matt McBride

@mcbride-matt.bsky.social

#nola freelance reporter

490 Followers 332 Following 478 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 hours ago

Jokes on you! Watch the tax revenue roll in when oil prices quadruple with no other negative consequences to society!

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8 hours ago

Corrected it. Thanks.

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5 days ago

Or City Hall.

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5 days ago

It means there's a higher than average chance of another BWA until then, just as happened in Fontainebleau after the Claiborne failure.

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5 days ago

"They" are not making anyone do anything. Tymrak is the no. 2 at the agency. She says her boss - who is also doing these videos - is in D.C. This is their choice. They think it is a good idea.
More importantly, it allows them to control the narrative.

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6 days ago

This is untrue. Plenty have. Here's one in August 2024
www.swbno.org/PressRelease...

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1 week ago

It could also be storage in advance of testing for the power complex, which still has a turbine and a frequency changer yet to be completed. S&WB frequently uses pumps at DPS 6 for such testing specifically because of the ability to store water upstream in this fashion.

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1 week ago

Pump F (1000 cfs) at DPS 6, which this canal feeds, has been down for a while. This could be storage of water in advance of testing the repaired pump.

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2 weeks ago

S&WB is pushing to expand that beyond the catch basin to include the entire gutter in front of a property.

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2 weeks ago

There is absolutely no reason for Sewerage and Water Board to be adding areas like this so long after a break. They have tons of water pressure data at the moment the break happened from their new smart meter system. Whether they know how to extract that data in timely fashion ...

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2 weeks ago

The passage below is a quote from the S&WB press release for today's South Claiborne water main break. What is strange is that S&WB appears to have gotten the size of the main wrong. Drawings for the project that replaced a portion of the same main 100 feet downstream show it is a 48" main, not 30".

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2 weeks ago

The break appears to be just upstream of Louisiana Ave. The S&WB installed a new 48" water main from the downstream side of Louisiana down to 3rd St, so this break appears to be outside the scope of the $12 million project (which went six months long and incurred $800,000 in change orders).

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3 weeks ago

"Put the city back together in the era of Reconstruction" He thinks the city was ruined under Union occupation during the Civil War?

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1 month ago

Unfortunately, other than the levees, there is no opportunity for downhill, so everyone is stuck with slalom

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1 month ago

Arresting journalists is so far over the line, the line isn't even a dot. It's just cosmic background radiation.

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1 month ago
Work – Metro Studio

Unknown. However, it does appear there's some money behind the project. The applicant for this one is Heather Gorman. There is a Heather Gorman working as business manager at MetroStudio, who do adaptive reuse projects.
www.metrostudio.net/work/

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1 month ago

Likely far more impactful would be a possible conversion of the seven-block long warehouse on Tchoup betw Louisiana and General Taylor from cargo handling to mixed retail. Unclear if their latest tenant would stay.

That tenant? U.S. Customs and Border Protection, who moved in last year.

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1 month ago

Would city employees be paid if the offices were closed? If not, and considering a bunch are already getting furloughed once a week, opening would seem to be a good idea.

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2 months ago

They are showing up all over town, according to two threads on Reddit
www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...

www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans...

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2 months ago

There is a constitutional amendment on the ballot in May that will allow the governor to convert local civil service employees to state civil service. It has gotten zero press attention.

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2 months ago

Nyx?

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2 months ago

One wonders if Denmark will even let him in with statements like this.

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2 months ago

Are posts from @profcarlnivale.bsky.social allowed before Jan. 6, or is that like king cake?

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2 months ago
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Steve Nelson, the General Superintendent and no. 2 at the agency (who was on the shortlist for exec director), may be on his way out. The agenda for tomorrow's board mtg includes a discussion of candidates for Interim General Superintendent.

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3 months ago

More than once this "feature" has gobbled up my limited internet usage, sending me into throttling from my ISP for days. This is not just annoying, it is bad. For example, throttling makes getting traffic information on google maps impossible. I don't know why Bluesky hasn't just fixed it yet.

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3 months ago

Yes, but if one logs out and logs back in, it is on by default, whoch can can cause one to gobble up internet usage without intending to. The default should be "off."

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3 months ago

Stop autoplaying media as default on login.

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3 months ago

Fun fact: the parking lot to the left is where the failed Trump Tower New Orleans was supposed to go. The project never got past the concept stage. The site was foreclosed on and auctioned off in 2011 for $6.5 million.

Also, this is the CBD, not the French Quarter.

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3 months ago
Screenshot from Sewerage and Water Board pumping and power dashboard at 9:40 AM 12/4/25, showing heavy rain moving into the city. Screenshot from Sewerage and Water Board pumping and power dashboard at 9:40 AM 12/4/25, showing equipment status that is over a week old.

Screenshots from the Sewerage & Water Board website currently, showing major rain moving into New Orleans right now and a week-old status of their pumping and power.

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3 months ago

Mark your calendars: The ribbon cutting for the
S&WB power complex is supposed to be December 18. It was originally scheduled for November 13, but was cancelled. (5/5)

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