The link between lead poisoning and crime is a mystery that none of the usual hypotheses — such as “get tough” police laws — can explain.
Category: Opinion
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Zack Kopplin speaks for science and the nation takes notice—will Louisiana?
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.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Memo to charters: Steal, pirate, plagiarize the private school playbook
Private prep school have forged many of secondary education’s “best practices.” Folwell Dunbar says the best public charter schools are smart to be copycats.
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Too late to save face, but time for LSU to settle van Heerden lawsuit
LSU tried to discredit Ivor van Heerden and then fired him for speaking out about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ failures with the levees in New Orleans. Now the university is fighting his wrongful termination lawsuit.
Posted inOpinion
Ref’s bad call spared us eternal ignominy for Super Bowl blackout
A Ravens’ loss would have been blamed on the momentum-draining lights-out moment. Photo by Christopher Hsia To the Super Bowl referee who ignored the pass interference that occurred on the fourth-down play with two minutes to go: Thank you for blowing that call! New Orleans is truly in your debt, sir. When Baltimore Ravens’ cornerback […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Nagin’s weird ride: from showboat to search for anonymity
“Simply put, the Ray Nagin of 2013 is almost unrecognizable as the man who swept New Orleans off its feet in 2002,” writes Gordon Russell.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Free expression or feds’ folly: Comment-gate likely to widen
Have other courthouse insiders posted inappropriate comments on NOLA.com?
Posted inOpinion
Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’: About race or just plain racist?
An exploration of Quentin Tarantino’s intent that goes beyond his use of the n-word.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Hey, all you bloggers out there: Any word from Perricone lately?
Ouroboros: the beast that devours its tail. Wikipedia To “Jack,” an open letter: Many thanks for your comment on my Dec. 11 column about U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s resignation. Your overarching message seems to be that Letten’s disgraced former assistant Sal Perricone really did nothing wrong in commenting publicly on federal cases the office was handling. Informed feedback […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Politics and prosecutors: tortuous route to an all-powerful office
Aspirants to the office of United States Attorney don’t openly campaign for it. That’s unseemly. Protocol dictates that they urge friends to lobby political party leaders on their behalf—governors, senators and representatives on down. The partisan bigwigs then narrow the list of aspiring candidates based on… what precisely? Loyalty? Patronage? Owed favors? We’ll never find […]