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.
Category
Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Garbage in, garbage out: ‘Grand vision’ for French Market junks tradition
Does a cleaned-up French Market affirm or betray its storied past?
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.
Renovated Charity Hospital could be home for social services, medical museum
Museum could help people learn about the history of medicine and modern diseases.
Proposal for recycling Charity Hospital emphasizes mental health services
How to repurpose the building at no cost to city taxpayers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
