Fire safety 101: Faulty gas fuel lines can make your attic a loaded gun
Enforcement is lax, given just one state employee to oversee local code jurisdictions throughout Louisiana.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
To escape marginalization, Black History Month must embrace ‘hard truths’
As we close out the 2015 installment of Black History Month, a real problem is the way people continue to separate black history from American history.
Gusman pays crony a million a year for services that aren’t specified
Investigative journalists are doing great work around here — a good thing, given the persistence of political sleaze.
Ghost condos haunt the New Orleans market — a dubious development
Pieds-à-terre left largely empty by well-to-do owners drive up costs for full-time city residents.
Yet another CBD developer seeks to deviate from the zoning code
The zoning code should not be simply the starting point for negotiations to violate that code with every new project.
Invasion of the poop troopers: Scooping’s the law — but at a cost to the planet
Dog droppings biodegrade within days; the poop scoopers' plastic bags will sit in landfills for centuries.
‘Tourist trolley’ vs. public transit: Will locals actually use the new streetcar line?
New Orleans seems to be building a two-tiered transit system: streetcars for tourists and the well-heeled; buses for the rest of us.
‘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."
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."
