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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
In our opinion: Thank you to Jed Horne
Lens staff members offer their appreciation to the longtime opinion editor, who retires this month.
Codrescu and Hearn: One immigrant writer recalls another and the city both called home
Would Trump have tolerated these refugees?
