Mardi Gras with the safety on
"Jamming 1.5 million humans into the same party space that struggled to accommodate half a million in 1970 is, put simply, unsafe."
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire. This category features thought-provoking essays and commentary from writers, community members, and photographers offering insight into the issues, ideas, and experiences that shape New Orleans and beyond.
The case for a Resilient and Renewable Portfolio Standard
"It’s standard operating procedure in politics these days to deride bold policy reform as “pie-in-the-sky,” or a “pipe-dream.” This requires a willful ignorance of the fact that visionary policy, driven and shaped by grassroot movements, has always been the engine that moves our democracy forward."
CPRA: It doesn’t have to be this way
"Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is missing the greatest opportunity in the state's Coastal Zone, namely combining storm and flood protection with the expansion of renewable, fauna- and flora-based, Coastal Zone industries."
Planners talk about resilience in the face of climate change. We need to start using a different R word.
In our Plan-A world, architecture and planning has become focused on the idea of “resilient” design. But continuing to talk about “resilience” in the face of ever-worsening projections is its own form of climate denial.
Louisiana’s death penalty violates conservative values
I used to believe the death penalty was justified. I have since learned that capital punishment actually violates many of the conservative principles that I hold dear, such as fiscal responsibility, limited government, and valuing life.
Listen up, Congress: Here’s how to support Louisiana’s working waterfronts and local seafood
Showcasing Gulf seafood and making a profitable living on the water are both becoming more and more difficult. But there may be good news on the horizon.
White fears, black people: voluntary segregation and how to stop it
The New Orleans public school busing crisis should be treated as the civil rights issue that it is.
For children attending public schools in New Orleans who rely upon public transportation to go to school, the privatization of New Orleans public schools has created barriers to accessing free and safe yellow school bus transportation, and therefore, access to education altogether.
'The Second Battle of New Orleans' republished for 50th anniversary of end to Riverfront Expressway fight
Sandra Stokes remembers her friend Bill Borah, whose classic book on preservationists' fight to stop the expressway project was recently republished.
Corporate wealth or the truth
The Advocate's editorial board "welcomes" petrochemical plants, even as its reporters show how dangerous that attitude has been.
