“I bought a Black Liberation Flag and hung it in my cube above my rack, as we called our beds. Someone wasn’t pleased.”
Category: Government & Politics
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Live blog Thursday: Landrieu holds public meeting on city finances in Lakeview
Meetings in Lakeview often focus on its roads, which are among the worst in the city.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Levees vs. logic: Rigging federal flood insurance rates is dumb and dangerous
Don’t be fooled. Average safety is not the same thing as actual safety.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Monumental decision: Who should be honored in place of the Confederates?
We should have the courage to acknowledge more of our history than what’s safe and cuddly and good for tourism.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Live blog: Landrieu brings budget meeting to Central City on day 3 for District B
Public defenders continued their push Tuesday, and Algiers residents complained of new riverfront zoning.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Live blog: second day of budget town hall meeting, in Council District C
Mayor holds annual events to solicit opinions on how to spend taxpayer money for the coming year.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Live blog: Mayor Landrieu kicks off annual town hall meetings on city finances
He’ll be in Gentilly at 6 p.m. Monday. Follow along here.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Case against New Orleans laborer shows a secretive ICE, lacking accountability
Judges exercise unbridled and arbitrary power over defendants with few legal protections.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
A letter to the next Dylann Roof
Sure you’ve been screwed, white boy, but it wasn’t by black people.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Firefighters to get back pay for filling jobs of superiors, dating to late 2013
Civil Service Commission today approved compromise; amount not yet known.