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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

Repeat offender suspected as shots ring out at a drug market yards from school

Neighborhood bedeviled by Criminal Court's revolving door.
by Austen Ward March 28, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Circle the Superdome! Fight to save New Orleans before we’re auctioned into oblivion

Don't take our rich culture for granted; instead, take a stand on Wednesday.
by Jonathan Henderson March 21, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Eyes on The Fly: How structural racism subtly undercuts plans for a ‘public good’

A deeper look at plans to remove another section of a public park from general use.
by Barbara C. Ewell March 16, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

What’s really going on in our legislature: Special interests addicted to greed

Making working families pay more in taxes as oil and gas companies receive hundreds of millions in subsidies is a crime against justice.
by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré and Livingston Parish Councilman Dean Coates March 9, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Crossing ‘faith lines’ to heal a world—and a city—scarred by violence and terror

"Our political rhetoric around faith grows increasingly ugly ... "
by Erik Schwarz March 7, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Evicted: How a landlord jumping into the short-term rental market cost us our home

We were model tenants — and then came the vacate order.
by Eric Aufderhar March 4, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

What to do with short-term rentals: legalize and police them? Good luck with that!

The shift to B&Bs — illegal and otherwise — is worsening the city's housing crisis.
by Roberta Brandes Gratz February 27, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

In threatened TOPS cuts, middle class glimpses reality faced by low-income families

College will be out of reach for more Louisianans if state budget mess guts scholarship program.
by Andre Perry February 23, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

New Orleans is the prime ingredient in Beyoncé’s viral video ‘hot sauce’

Her viral video is rife with mythic images of the city, some nuanced, some merely cheap shots.
by C.W. Cannon February 19, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’? Says who?

From JFK to Trump, TV has changed the substance of our politics, not just the style.
by Jed Horne February 12, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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