Moseley: “If it weren’t so insulting, it would be grimly amusing how such a lucrative industry always postures as teetering on the brink of financial disaster.”
Category: Opinion
Posted inOpinion
What does it really mean to follow the slogan and be a New Orleanian?
Is following the bumper-sticker advice as easy as it sounds? There’s a lot more to being a New Orleanian than meets the eye, and if we mean it, we have to accept everything that comes with that phrase.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Timid litigation that shields Big Oil won’t begin to pay for coastal reclamation
Why not share the cost nationwide? That’s what the oil industry will do anyway, at no cost to its bottom line.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Zombie planet: a Vodou vision of the environmental apocalypse ahead
“We want our air-conditioning and our automobiles, so we simply disregard the sure knowledge that we are enslaving the earth’s resources to our greed.”
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
‘Ban the Box’ hailed as a step in the right direction — if approved
“A judge never acknowledges that he is sentencing someone to a life of unemployment or homelessness.”
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
As lawsuits proliferate, will Big Oil join in a ‘grand bargain’ to save the coast?
As John Barry has said, this is Jindal’s opportunity to prove himself a great governor or just another oil-industry lapdog.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Predicted exodus of offshore rigs turns out to have been mere Obama bashing
For all the dire warnings, the ‘Obamatorium’ on offshore drilling after the BP spill did not lead to economic calamity in Louisiana or anywhere else.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Chief public defender sounds off: Time to fix a ‘perverse’ system of justice
“Fines, fees and court costs are a part of criminal justice systems around the country, but Louisiana public defenders depend and rely on such costs to a dangerous degree.”
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Ex-flood authority leader picks apart arguments against suing oil interests
Says Barry: “There has been no court challenge to the board’s authority because the state knows it would lose and look foolish.”
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Audio: New Orleans residents offer ideas for Charity Hospital building
Responses include a mall, something other than condos and, not surprisingly, a medical facility.