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.
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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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
With dear friends like Big Oil, are we our own worst enemies?
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."
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.
