How to make New Orleans uglier and less safe: continue to ignore yard paving
The city's One-Stop Shop is scheduled to consider stricter citation rules and heavier fines, bringing New Orleans into stride with San Francisco and other cities.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Jindal’s worst political blunder is one you probably never heard about
Remembering the time — against the backdrop of the Jena protests — that Jindal revived coded language from the Jim Crow era.
Racism and the church: Episcopalians search their souls, seek atonement
The service for racial reconciliation, two days before the MLK Jr. holiday, was a year in the planning. At first it looked like no one was going to show up.
City’s murder rate drops: A mere blip or the start of a long-term trend?
The decline may be only temporary, but taking a 'wait and see' attitude is a luxury New Orleans can't afford.
A quip on Twitter lands me a public audience with Louisiana’s coastal chief, but it could have been worse
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.
Widespread graffiti on public structures reads like city tolerates lawlessness
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."
Transplant’s dream of urban farming imperiled by zoning, rising land prices
A would-be farmer from Chicago worries that she has arrived too late to till New Orleans' soils.
This time the city needs to get St. Roch Market right — a lot depends on it
Food expert Darlene Wolnik offers insights on the place of a public market in the renewal of a neighborhood.
Hipsters, take note: Still not crazy about Starbucks after all these years
"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."
Rush to oppose coastal reclamation suit exposes weakness of Jindal’s case
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."
