Thousands of Louisianans depend on Planned Parenthood for services Jindal wants to defund.
Category: Opinion
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Proposed zoning ordinance amendments: a gift to the booze biz; raw deal for neighborhoods
Council member’s 11th hour CZO tweaks sabotage efforts to control club noise and neighborhood liquor outlets.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Memories of a black boyhood and my delight in the Confederate ‘stars and bars’
“I bought a Black Liberation Flag and hung it in my cube above my rack, as we called our beds. Someone wasn’t pleased.”
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 inLand Use, Opinion
Scramble for variances already making a mockery of the city’s new zoning code
The new CZO could end up being little more than a ream of wasted paper.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
BP settlement: Tens of millions for lawyers, not nearly enough for the coast
Why did BP’s stock rise after the settlement was reached: payments are low and slow — except to lawyers.
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 inLand Use, Opinion
Preservation pit bull Bill Borah says new zoning code should trigger Master Plan update
In amending the Charter voters expressed disenchantment with pre-Katrina’s ad hoc, special-interest-driven planning process.