Sid vicious? Former trash king Torres fires at Mitch Landrieu over French Quarter safety
 

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If anyone should know about trash in the French Quarter, it's Sidney Torres IV, whose SDT Waste & Debris Services kept the Vieux Carre sparking clean and lemony-fresh under a city contract in 2007, continuing for several years after Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods. After a fallout between Torres and the city in 2010, the city eventually went with a less lemony-fresh garbage contractor, and the man who was nicknamed "Trashanova" for his luxuriant hair and tight T-shirts moved on to other business concerns, including a Bahamian resort.? [ Read more ]

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