Royalty-screwed: Big Oil likes to confuse severance taxes with cleanup costs
Using improved offshore royalties for coastal restoration would still mean taxpayers were paying for the industry's malfeasance.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Identity politics: Gentry cling to go-cups while kids and roosters face extinction
New Orleans native C.W. Cannon savors his right to carry a drink into the streets, but wonders if the go-cup kerfuffle wasn't a tad overblown.
Why Jindal is so reluctant to make Big Oil pay for ravaging Louisiana’s coast
The Jindal team's attack on the Flood Authority lawsuit is complex and hard to follow — a sure sign that they've been thrown on the defensive.
Soaring flood insurance rates threaten to wash away property values, tax base
The good news: A national coalition is tackling the flood insurance crisis, and Congress appears to be responding.
The O’Keefe/Letten dust-up at Tulane: more there than sound and fury?
O'Keefe may be a whack job — or "spud," as Jim Letten puts it — but some of his insinuations about prosecutorial misconduct are worth a second look.
Suing oil and gas interests to save the coast: author John Barry weighs in
Barry, a member of the levee authority that is suing oil and gas companies for damage to the coast, writes: "We have been criticized for trying to collect from an industry which was complying with the law at the time it conducted its operations. We believe that they were never in compliance with the law."
He’s b-a-a-a-a-ck! Disaster-prone BP boss returns to the Gulf under new auspices
Tony 'I want my life back' Hayward may have been in charge during the blowout, but BP's corporate culture owed more to John Browne.
‘Reinventing the Crescent’ reconsidered: mere gentrification or good for us all?
Baltimore's experience with the Inner Harbor redevelopment is a cause for concern in New Orleans.
Keep an eye on next week’s jobs data — state’s ‘rebirth’ hangs in the balance
An unemployment uptick could cost Gov. Jindal some of his favorite talking points.
Remembering the unforgettable: a salute to the late, very great Greg Peters
We're going to miss Peters' brand of savage — but inspiring — political satire.
