Satellites of Gov: Tulane to Track Obscure City Boards

Over at Tulane, they've been picking up some strange signals lately. But where you picture a bunch of guys sitting in a dark room wearing tin foil hats, they picture that hulking building on Perdido St. The mess of commissions, boards, public trusts, development districts and occassional railroad commission operating as personal bank account, actually has an academic name: satellite government. To track the orbits of these goverment crafts, the profs have set up a website called New Orleans Satellite Government.