Tennessee Williams Festival’s streetcar opens doors to less stodgy, more inclusive literary crowd
An aficionado of the local literary scene salutes the new direction the Tennessee Williams Festival seems to have taken.
Category
Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Letten at the plate: Was the federal prosecutor using a corked bat?
Columnist Moseley wonders whether Jim Letten's downfall was rooted more deeply than many pundits acknowledge.
Does stunning collapse of River Birch case portend uglier revelations ahead?
Now it appears that there may have been more serious and systemic problems during Letten’s term than we ever knew.
New group makes timely debut in fight against lead poisoning
The link between lead poisoning and crime is a mystery that none of the usual hypotheses — such as “get tough” police laws — can explain.
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.
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.
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.
Ref’s bad call spared us eternal ignominy for Super Bowl blackout
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.
Free expression or feds’ folly: Comment-gate likely to widen
Have other courthouse insiders posted inappropriate comments on NOLA.com?
