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Opinion

Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

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.
by Sandra Stokes and Walter Gallas November 4, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

Renovated Charity Hospital could be home for social services, medical museum

Museum could help people learn about the history of medicine and modern diseases.
by Marianne Maumus November 1, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

Proposal for recycling Charity Hospital emphasizes mental health services

How to repurpose the building at no cost to city taxpayers.
by Janet Hays October 31, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Scott Burns October 31, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Lynda Woolard October 30, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Jack Davis October 29, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Mark Moseley October 29, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

It’s been a mild hurricane season to date, but best to keep that hatchet handy

Weather gurus were wrong in predicting an unusually rough storm season; that doesn't mean we're in the clear.
by Bob Marshall October 22, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

Unprobed mysteries still lurk at the heart of the Danziger online comment scandal

Not all the comments by federal prosecutors appear to have been identified.
by Mark Moseley October 18, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

We know what we think of tourists; what do they think of us?

Thumbs down on Bourbon Street, but raves for Frenchmen Street and a heaping platter of chicken at Mandina's
by Craig Cliff and Roland Rugero October 16, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

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