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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

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.
by Eugene Thomas January 29, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

‘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.
by Peter Horjus January 21, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

‘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."
by C.W. Cannon January 13, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Keith Hardie January 5, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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."
by John Koeferl December 18, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

‘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.
by C.W. Cannon December 12, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Jed Horne December 8, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Brooke Schueller December 5, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Eugene Thomas December 1, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Keith Twitchell November 26, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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