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.
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."
A would-be farmer from Chicago worries that she has arrived too late to till New Orleans' soils.
Food expert Darlene Wolnik offers insights on the place of a public market in the renewal of a neighborhood.
"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."
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."
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.
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."
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.
Why not share the cost nationwide? That's what the oil industry will do anyway, at no cost to its bottom line.
