Memo from Florida to Steve Scalise: Keep the rigs—and pollution—on your side of the Gulf
Remembering tar balls, oil slicks and the summer that wasn't.
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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.
New City Council already caving in to tacky fast-food plan for Magazine Street
Allowing the fast-food outlet would open the door to more of same.
Anxiety and authenticity: Are ‘super-natives’ loving New Orleans to death?
One irony: STRs are gutting the neighborhoods tourists want to stay in.
It’s not enough to ban fakery at Council hearings; we need a real Community Participation Program
A way to generate citizen involvement and grassroots power
Facing closure, Cypress Academy parents demand answers from charter, parish school boards
"We ask that you offer real solutions to this terrible situation in which you have put our families," they wrote.
‘Did I sound angry?’ Foe of Sun Yard takes umbrage at architect’s dismissive remarks
Civic participation is hard work that should be respected, not dissed.
Is New Orleans the place for a truly honest look at the slave system?
A way to repudiate the gauzy falsehoods of 'Gone with the Wind.'
Citizen input getting squeezed out of plans for Charity Hospital district
Will the public be handed another 'done deal'?
Balancing act: Master plan upholds spirit of Audubon Park, commissioner contends
Amenities vs. open space in an 'urban Eden' that also invites 'active use'
In memory of Ron Ridenhour: Finding the courage to tell terrible truths
The need is only more urgent in a season of political lies.
