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Originating from New Orleans, LA...ON THE SHOW... Vic DelGiorno "THE "KING OF ALL PODCASTING" & Co-hosts Nick, Ted, & Derek from "Selling The Big Easy" on HGTVSpecial Guest: David C Webb from Mobile, ALDiscussed on this show:- David's open letter to Mayor Cantrell- Smoking pot openly in New Orleans- Homeless issues in New OrleansAn open letter to the The City Of NOLA & Mayor LaToya Cantrell: Your City Has Lost Its Way. Mayor Cantrell -I’m just like any other visitor to your city. I came from Alabama this weekend with my 16 year old son to participate in an all-weekend travel baseball tournament at various locations around New Orleans: Avenger Field, UNO, and Belle Chase High School. It’s been almost 10 years since we were last here. Personally, I’ve been to your City dozens of times since childhood, thru my high school & college years, as a business professional for seminars and shows, as a sports spectator and concert goer, as a father of a family of 4 on vacation, and now as a run-of-mill visitor here for a purpose. While visiting this weekend, it was my intent to carve out some time to see the normal historic downtown hotspots we’ve always gone to in the past as a family: Canal St, Bourbon St, French Market, Riverboat, Cafe Du Mon, the River Walk, Aquarium, Jackson Square, etc. while also playing our baseball games. And we did. And it was eye-opening to say the least. I thought I’d put my observations together in this letter so you could grasp what a visitor sees today in the specific areas/places I mentioned above. First, the blight you have in the downtown area is unfathomable. Entire huge buildings off of I-10 are eye sores, and the first thing visitors see driving into the City. There are numerous dilapidated buildings with no windows, no ply board, graffitied, and/or rusted beyond repair. They are abandoned tired old structures that show scars of Katrina’s aftermath I’m sure; a storm from over 16 years ago. Second, the stench is horrific. There’s always been that sewage/garbage smell associated with the old sections of New Orleans. Such smells we’ve picked up on as a kid while visiting. And we understand why it’s like that. Once conditioned to it, it’s pretty much been normal, acceptable, and tolerable because that’s just how it is. You know it’s going to smell so you just ignore it as best you can and move along with enthusiastic intentions of enjoying the sights, the music, the food, and everything else we’ve fondly grown to love about NOLA. But there’s one problem now that knocks ya down almost as soon as you get out of your car: WEED. Marijuana. Dope. However you want to call it. It’s absolutely disgusting. Visitors and locals are smoking that trash in plain view, out in the open, on the streets, in front of kids, families, and your police. And they (police) do nothing about it. Perhaps you have a stand-down order in place to enforce drug use on your streets? Whether it’s for political reasons, a thinly-stretched understaffed police force, or sheer ambivalence, it is destroying your City in my opinion. Allowing people to blatantly smoke weed on your streets is a nasty travesty. It’s also going to cost NOLA in the long run. Promise. Your City has lost its way with allowing this drug trash to run rampant.Third, your homeless are in need of attention. We walked miles thru your histoSupport the show