Freelancer’s lament: When will the news biz figure out how to pay us?
None of my friends, neighbors or relatives are heading into this field — and, really, can you blame them?
Category: 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.
NBA owner’s racist advice to mistress unusual only for being so candid
The right wing's rebuttal to accusations of bigotry has been to declare that the "real racists" today are liberals.
Tricentennial will make for a very big year — and perhaps an equally big tax bite
The Landrieu administration devised a grow-or-die strategy for post-Katrina recovery and hopes to bring it to consummation by 2018.
Post-mortem on Audubon millage: more to its defeat than anti-tax fervor
Family budgets have been nibbled from all sides by fees and walloped by higher rents or property taxes. Incomes haven’t kept pace.
Chain stores, rising rents may make Magazine Street the victim of its success
Over the past year, businesses along Magazine Street have been reporting a tide of unaffordable rent increases, and, sure enough, it coincides with increased interest in Magazine Street from national chains.
BP finds a friend in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — but look who gets screwed
Small businesses were encouraged to sign on to a settlement process that precluded filing separate lawsuits. After the deadline for filing such suits, BP has tried to change the rules.
The Quarter’s a treasure — so should those trashy tourist shops be banned?
Many of the galleries proliferating in the Quarter sell wares distinguishable from souvenir-shop fare only by their price tags.
A source of strength to slaves, call-and-response ritual sustains Kili climbers
A snowbound African mountain provides an unexpected encounter with a cultural artifact associated with the Deep South at its most brutal.
Jindal credits Louisiana’s economic revival to a tax plan he initially opposed
Jindal's own plan — income tax abolition and a sky-high sales tax — was laughed out of the 2013 Legislature.
Don’t expect a safe, humane Orleans Parish Prison any time soon; here’s why
Medical and psychiatric care is terrible and prisoners live in fear of being beaten or raped.
