‘A David Duke without the baggage’ finds himself with a load to carry anyway
Memo to the GOP: "You can't go to the well again and again and then claim the water's toxic."
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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.
Wanted: Businesses sized to fit current zoning — not more parking lots
The best way to prevent new parking lots is to make sure that we don't zone these historic urban areas for businesses with intensive parking demand.
Ripping the fabric of a neighborhood — and, with it, the spirit of democracy
"It’s not that Holy Cross thinks of itself as Williamsburg or what the French Quarter is to purists."
‘The night they drove Old Dixie’ … back up: reflections on Landrieu’s demise
The triumph of the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" can finally be called complete.
Toadying to the Tea Party: Louisiana kids and the politics of the Common Core
To Marc Morial it’s simply “reprehensible” that politicians are putting their electoral ambitions ahead of Louisiana’s kids, indeed the state itself.
Decline and fall: Emperor Jindal as the ancient Romans might have seen him
Our government serves the interests of corporations over common people, much as the Caesars concentrated power within their bloodline alone.
Slavery museum at upriver plantation stirs controversy on both sides of racial divide
Black and white folks alike — some of them skeptics, some of them cynics — seem to be mightily opposed to the idea of a slave museum.
Let’s pay more than lip service to citizen participation in the city budget process
Participatory Budgeting is a worldwide movement that needs to be adopted here in New Orleans.
Auto ‘rapture’ along Magazine Street? CZO parking changes seem to bank on it
The changes to parking regulations in the current draft are a developer’s dream — and a neighborhood nightmare.
