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Author: Mark Moseley

About Mark Moseley
Mark Moseley is The Lens’ Engagement Editor. He produces The Lens’ newsletters that highlight our essential local reporting and sharp commentary on issues that matter to New Orleanians. During an earlier stint with the Lens, he wrote opinion columns, coordinated the Charter Schools Reporting Corps and launched the “What We’re Reading” link roundup. His opinion writing earned a first-place award from The New Orleans Press Club in 2012. Moseley has lived in New Orleans since 1996 and co-founded the Rising Tide new media conference, which ran annually from 2006 to 2015.

$16 billion question: BP’s liability in Macondo disaster

February 24, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Climate change makes local flood defense a real crap shoot

February 18, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Are we still waiting for Superman to corrupt our kids and culture?

February 14, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Student takes role of David to creationist’s legislative Goliath

February 8, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Commenter’s mookery is of Biblical proportion

February 2, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

It’s "The Jungle" out there, but we can feast on fresh local food

January 31, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Shepherd needs to pull up his big-boy britches

January 25, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
In August 2007, after City Councilmember Oliver Thomas resigned and admitted to taking bribes, his attorney was asked about the possibility of Thomas providing helpful testimony to Federal prosecutors. Shepherd ultimately confessed, and assumed total responsibility, but

He blew like a warm summer’s eve, but should we have preserved his home?

January 21, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Bermdoggle: The real barrier that Gov. Jindal will have to overcome

January 19, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Comparing Detroit to NOLA after Katrina not so far off

January 13, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
I once mocked a pundit for comparing Detroit to “post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans." I'm rethinking that.

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