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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

Fontainebleau State Park: We Need Wilderness Now More Than Ever

Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser's proposed hotel-convention center complex at Fontainebleau State Park raises both environmental and human health concerns.
by Jennifer Coulson October 7, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

The power of trees in the fight against global warming, street flooding, and more

by Kevin Fitzwilliam September 16, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

City Workers Deserve $15 an Hour

by Toinette Johnson September 2, 2019 Updated November 13, 2019

Who will build, manage and maintain our future?

Our future ability to perform day-to-day errands, let alone recover from storms and weather disruptions, relies on malfunctioning infrastructure in desperate need of repairs and improvements. We need to be training that workforce now.
by Aaron Frumin August 27, 2019 Updated November 13, 2019

The Benefits of Practicing What We Teach

As students return to area schools this month, Folwell Dunbar highlights some teachers whose careers outside of the classroom enhances their work inside.
by Folwell Dunbar August 15, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

ICE Uses Language Barriers to Silence Asylum Seekers in Louisiana

ICE detention centers in Louisiana offer limited access to translation services which are integral for asylum seekers to successfully navigate the immigration process, seek legal counsel, and acquire medical assistance.
by Andrew Dafoe August 7, 2019 Updated November 13, 2019

The Big March to Save Lives in Death Alley

Will Louisiana, beholden as it is to Big Oil and the chemical industry, ever get serious about cleaning up Death Alley?
by The Rev. William Barnwell July 29, 2019 Updated November 13, 2019

Trump exacerbates the divide between New Orleans and suburban neighbors

Louisiana Republicans' celebration of Louisiana as “Trump Country” bespeaks a Louisiana that does not include the great city of New Orleans.
by C.W. Cannon July 26, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

The unacceptable arrest of musician Eugene Grant should be the catalyst for change

We have to change the laws, legal systems, and enforcement practices that have allowed these same issues, and this same treatment of our cultural community, to perpetuate.
by Ethan Ellestad July 18, 2019 Updated November 13, 2019

The Army Corps of Engineers has failed New Orleans

We have a history of wanting to believe the Corps’ reassurances, both pre- and post-flood, but the agency that almost destroyed this city has now betrayed it.
by Harry Shearer July 17, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019

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