Alex Rawls asks: "Does the relatively free-range nature of New Orleans' nightlife add to the city's mystique, even for those who finish their drinks before they leave the bar and are in bed by 11?"
The revenue offsets in his initial plan were always completely negotiable as long as they yielded an income tax repeal. That's why it kept changing.
Newcomers are proving to be zealous enthusiasts of New Orleans culture. Are they destroying it?
Moseley acknowledges it’s a bit of a confidence game at first, but if the tax plan coincides with continuing business expansion, voodoo economics may finally have found its high priest.
Father Michael notes that financial inequality is at its worst level since the 1920s and prays that Congress will find the courage to attack the federal debt in a way that includes tax increases on the wealthy, not just cuts that hit middle-class and poor Americans hardest.
An aficionado of the local literary scene salutes the new direction the Tennessee Williams Festival seems to have taken.
Columnist Moseley wonders whether Jim Letten's downfall was rooted more deeply than many pundits acknowledge.
Now it appears that there may have been more serious and systemic problems during Letten’s term than we ever knew.
The link between lead poisoning and crime is a mystery that none of the usual hypotheses — such as “get tough” police laws — can explain.
Says Moseley: The real issue is public money being used to support sham science. Doubting evolution is fine on your own time or in religion class, perhaps.
