A seat. Hello, everybody. Where you at . [cheers] it is good toa be back in the big easy. The weather in august all the time, right . In new as i land orleans, the first thing i do is get hungry. The familyhere with a few years ago, i had a shrimp at parkway bakery and tavern. I still remember it. That is how good it was. One day after i leave office, aybe i will finally hear rebirth of the maple leaf on tuesday night. Ill get a chance to see the mardi gras and someone will tell me what carnival right now, i just go to meetings. For theo thank michelle introduction, and more importantly for the great work she is doing. What she represents in terms of the city bouncing back. I want to acknowledge a great friend and somebody who has been working tirelessly on behalf of the city. And hes following a family legacy of service. Your mayor mitch landrieu. Proud of him. His beautiful wife. Senator bill cassidy is here. There he is. Cedric richmond congressman cedric richmond. Theres the covers
There is no way a school should operate in a vacuum and not actually be deeply rooted in the broader context that our students live in. I see many examples across the city of where schools are really working much harder to do that. A lot of what i focus on the last four years has been helping both leaders who may not be from here but actually have good intentions figure out ways they can bridge more effectively within their community. Walter you have been a critic a times mr. Perry at times. Walter you always have Something Interesting to say. You are critical of two things. One, the expulsion policy which is if you are in one of these types of schools, you have an incentive to expel the back kids so that your scores go up and you dont the deal with it. And then there was the other criticism. Mr. Perry special needs. The way i explain it is that the development of what we have in new orleans occurs generally in three stages. The immediate aftermath. We were literally pulling schools to
Pres. Obama everybody have a seat. Hello everybody. Where you at . Its good to be back in the big easy. [applause] and this is the weather in august all the time, right . [laughter] as soon as i land in new orleans, the first thing i do is get hungry. [laughter] when i was here with the family pictures ago, i had some food at the parkway bakery. I still remember it, how good it was. Office,after i leave maybe i will finally hear a rebirth of the maple leaf on tuesday night. [laughter] i will get a chance to see the mardi gras, and tell me what carnival is for. But right now i just go to meetings. Michelle for the introduction, and more importantly for the great work she is doing, what she symbolizes, what she represents in terms of bouncing back. I want to acknowledge the great friend and someone who has worked tirelessly on behalf of the city. He is following a family legacy of service. Your mayor, Mitch Landrieu. [applause] his beautiful wife. Senator bill cassidy easier. Is here. Th
Dizzies. To his right, the executive editor of the New York Times. Full disclosure my former boss. Tonight immediate right is terry, the editor of the print edition of the New York Times. As much as possible, we are going to hear them talking. Wayne, i would love to start with you. Story to start with the how your family got into the Restaurant Business in the first place. My understanding is that europe my understanding is that your parents took a big risk. They invested all the money in the first restaurant. What gives him the confidence to do that . Wayne for the love of the Restaurant Business. In first restaurant was 1947, called the chicken coop. During the day, he was a mail carrier, and at night, he ran a restaurant. It got to a point when he just wanted to have his own restaurant. He took a chance. He sold our house. Placee did, he bought a called goodfellows bar. That bar served food. We immediately, as a team and family, worked together to open up a restaurant, calling it ed
See the money in the bank account but they could not spend it until the reform was done. This shifted the political balance because all of a sudden people said they were supporting the subsidy reform because now they could use the cash transfers with incredible opportunity. For various other reasons it did not work out so well now the subsidies are back. I think having done it once there is a chance they might able to do it again. Dudash on the point of if it will be politically easier, it will be politically easier where the economic case is compelling. It can be in subsidies, but it is especially compelling in the whole Energy Sector where there will be they will be desperate to attract Foreign Investment. The kind of oil regime that they have and they are moving in the direction desired by International Oil companies. In general they will be looking for Foreign Investment because there are many good reasons to get Foreign Investment. Particularly Foreign Investment which is a genera