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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.

New Orleans seems to be building a two-tiered transit system: streetcars for tourists and the well-heeled; buses for the rest of us.

Memo to the GOP: "You can't go to the well again and again and then claim the water's toxic."

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.

"It’s not that Holy Cross thinks of itself as Williamsburg or what the French Quarter is to purists."

The triumph of the Republican Party's "Southern Strategy" can finally be called complete.

To Marc Morial it’s simply “reprehensible” that politicians are putting their electoral ambitions ahead of Louisiana’s kids, indeed the state itself.

Our government serves the interests of corporations over common people, much as the Caesars concentrated power within their bloodline alone.

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.

Participatory Budgeting is a worldwide movement that needs to be adopted here in New Orleans.