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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

Love letter to a wild and crazy mistress as a jobseeker bails out of New Orleans

Seduced by New Orleans, a young Tulane grad breaks it off and heads back east.
by Sam Tabachnik October 9, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Something new on the menu — but it’s stomach-turning

The spate of bistro robberies sheds light on our vulnerability—and on our priorities.
by Jed Horne October 2, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

We won’t be a truly resilient city without a Community Participation Program

A 2008 City Charter change mandated a formal structure for citizen engagement — and we still don't have one. Why?
by Keith Twitchell September 25, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

City’s Ethics Review Board needs to address its own shortcomings

Agency falls short of standards it is meant to enforce throughout city governance.
by David Marcello September 18, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Saving the art of teaching from the science of education

Modern educators are taking Taylorism off the assembly line and applying it to the classroom.
by Folwell Dunbar September 11, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Debtors’ prisons may be illegal, but they’re alive and well in Louisiana

Effectively, the system jails people because they are poor, which is neither legal nor just.
by Bill Quigley September 2, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Old problems persist, but it’s absurd to deny improvements since Katrina

The disaster narrative that national observers are habituated to look for has blinded them to a lot of what’s going on in our schools ...
by C.W. Cannon August 28, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Two sides to the Katrina recovery: one black, one white — separate and unequal

Most white people say the recovery is going well. Most black people believe the opposite.
by Eugene Thomas August 28, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Did recovery leadership lie at the grassroots level or does the elite deserve credit?

Two authors approach the recovery from divergent angles, gleaning fresh insights into the long road we've traveled.
by Randy Fertel August 26, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Under assault, Planned Parenthood blames Jindal for making a ‘shambles’ of health care

Thousands of Louisianans depend on Planned Parenthood for services Jindal wants to defund.
by Melissa Flournoy August 18, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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