Remembering the time — against the backdrop of the Jena protests — that Jindal revived coded language from the Jim Crow era.
Category: Opinion
Posted inOpinion
Racism and the church: Episcopalians search their souls, seek atonement
The service for racial reconciliation, two days before the MLK Jr. holiday, was a year in the planning. At first it looked like no one was going to show up.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
City’s murder rate drops: A mere blip or the start of a long-term trend?
The decline may be only temporary, but taking a ‘wait and see’ attitude is a luxury New Orleans can’t afford.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
A quip on Twitter lands me a public audience with Louisiana’s coastal chief, but it could have been worse
I had my chance to put state coastal czar Garret Graves on the spot, but high-caliber attorneys suing oil and gas companies beat me to it.
Posted inOpinion
Widespread graffiti on public structures reads like city tolerates lawlessness
Starr: “Graffiti remediation appears nowhere in the city’s budget or staffing list, nor, it seems, does it fall within Mayor Landrieu’s field of vision.”
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Transplant’s dream of urban farming imperiled by zoning, rising land prices
A would-be farmer from Chicago worries that she has arrived too late to till New Orleans’ soils.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
This time the city needs to get St. Roch Market right — a lot depends on it
Food expert Darlene Wolnik offers insights on the place of a public market in the renewal of a neighborhood.
Posted inOpinion
Hipsters, take note: Still not crazy about Starbucks after all these years
“Starbucks has done a great service to the United States in general by putting semi-decent coffee in places that never had it before. But that obviously doesn’t apply to us.”
Posted inOpinion
Rush to oppose coastal reclamation suit exposes weakness of Jindal’s case
Sandy Rosenthal: ” … if there were a good reason for Jindal to continue shielding Big Oil from its legal responsibilities to the people of Louisiana, we would have heard it by now.”
Posted inOpinion
What’s ‘white privilege’ all about? The People’s Institute offers tough insights
Harsh criticism of his recent opinion column leads a recent Tulane graduate to dig more deeply into the role race plays in personal and community relations.