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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

Jindal dances around the truth, disguising anti-gay bigotry as freedom of speech

Instead of veiling it with code words, Jindal should own his gender discrimination. File some lawsuits, settle the constitutional question, already!
by Mark Moseley May 14, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

BP revisited: ‘Safer than ever’ may not be safe at all when it comes to offshore rigs

Journalists who buy into Big Oil's talking points would have us believe BP-style spills are a thing of the past.
by Mark Moseley May 8, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Holy Cross condo plan: Are we already abandoning post-Katrina reforms?

The community senses that its input, including a 74-page argument to uphold currently legal height limits, is losing ground to an overblown development scheme.
by Roberta Brandes Gratz May 6, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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?
by Sam Tabachnik May 2, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Mark Moseley April 30, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Mark Moseley April 24, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Mark Moseley April 22, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Mark Strella and Travis Martin April 18, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Tom Young April 16, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by C.W. Cannon April 11, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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