Media hypocrisy and the n-word: Was Paula Deen fired for her sins or ours?
Multi-generational white Southerners are not any more racist than racists in Colorado, New Jersey, or the new Florida of George Zimmerman.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Monumental mistake: Demolishing World Trade Center to build a tourist attraction
Small and modest projects always exceed expectations while big ones never fulfill theirs.
New Orleans must hold leaders accountable for violence prevention programs
The young man accused of shooting second-liners on Mother's Day "is all our young men. He’s us."
Landrieu and Jindal: political opposites likely to be judged together
If the promised boom comes true, both politicians will benefit. And if not ...
Who’s dictating Jindal’s tax policy? Hint: He calls World War II vets anti-American
Jindal is one of several Louisiana pols dancing to Norquist's strange tune.
Even a chain restaurant like proposed Habana Outpost creates commerce
What if a Pizza Hut went up at that abandoned gas station in the Quarter?
LSU scientists warn: Don’t let nitrogen anxiety undermine fight to save coast
Concern that nitrogen-fed vegetation has degraded Massachusetts wetlands is no reason to stop freshwater diversions here, the authors argue.
Louisiana bucks the trend: postmortem of a tax revolution that fizzled
Louisiana legislators had more pressing concerns.
Oh, brother, where art thou? Is state income tax really why Nikesh Jindal split?
Jindal junked a Reagan quote and used a family anecdote to sell his tax plan. But the truth poorly serves his argument that taxes are behind the state's brain drain.
30 years of time-lapse satellite images show coastal Louisiana wasting away
Time-lapse images illustrate what we knew was happening: Over 30 years, islands and beaches have moved north, channels have widened, and marshes have turned to open water without a blade of brass for miles. But they also show portions of the coast growing, reinvigorated by restoration projects.
