“The message from those who would gouge funding for the program could not be clearer: ‘We like things the way they are.’ ”
Category: Opinion
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Financial separation of New Orleans’ civil, criminal courts must end
It’s time to deal with financing of the courts while city leaders discuss Charity Hospital and a new courthouse.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Garbage in, garbage out: ‘Grand vision’ for French Market junks tradition
Does a cleaned-up French Market affirm or betray its storied past?
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Talk of reusing Charity Hospital building is familiar to preservationists
Study showed the building could’ve been rehabbed for a modern hospital for less than it cost to build the new one.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Renovated Charity Hospital could be home for social services, medical museum
Museum could help people learn about the history of medicine and modern diseases.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Proposal for recycling Charity Hospital emphasizes mental health services
How to repurpose the building at no cost to city taxpayers.
Posted inOpinion
Getting Gulf restoration right: Economics and environment can’t be separated
Leadership needs to understand that BP fines may be the coast’s last best chance.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
A clear need for mental-health facilities presents an obvious use for Charity
This is the second in a series of reader commentaries that seek solutions for remaking the downtown landmark.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Move now to turn Charity into City Hall, and work on finding other tenants from there
This opinion article was written in response to The Lens’ request for ideas on how best to reuse Charity Hospital.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Honore delivers startlingly radical call to action against forces destroying coast
The need to resist Big Oil and the Jindal administration’s shameless pandering to it has begun to forge a broad-spectrum political alliance.