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.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
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.
Case against New Orleans laborer shows a secretive ICE, lacking accountability
Judges exercise unbridled and arbitrary power over defendants with few legal protections.
A letter to the next Dylann Roof
Sure you've been screwed, white boy, but it wasn't by black people.
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.
Politics of passing: Rachel Dolezal would have had an easier time of it in old New Orleans
Did a socially established white person ever assume a black identity, long-term, in the era before Rachel Dolezal? Apparently Voodoo queen Marie Laveau's lover did just that.
Equity, transparency undercut by holdouts against OneApp school admissions process
It's time to level the playing field and provide a uniform application process for all OPSB charters.
WBOK panel on race shows how hard it can be to ‘promote understanding’
White guilt meets black blame: Is there no way to overcome these obstacles to more constructive conversation?
If Jindal’s anti-gay order reflects Southern ‘values,’ New Orleans has seceded from the region
There's the Old South and then there's the Other South. Revulsion over Jindal's coded bigotry places New Orleans in the latter camp.
Real ‘resilience’ requires a City Hall unafraid of public participation and tough questions
The Landrieu administration needs to overcome its chronic evasiveness if the city is to stand strong in the face of our next disaster.
