In August 2007, after City Councilmember Oliver Thomas resigned and admitted to taking bribes, his attorney was asked about the possibility of Thomas providing helpful testimony to Federal prosecutors. Shepherd ultimately confessed, and assumed total responsibility, but
I once mocked a pundit for comparing Detroit to “post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans." I'm rethinking that.
I love to handicap college football games by carefully analyzing the merits of each team’s mascots, and factoring in ominous current events that might foretoken disaster for a particular football squad.
From Hornets to Glenn Beck to sand berms, here are various follow-ups to previous items.
Educators agree that high school students deserve to learn “the very best science.” Hallelujah, right? Not quite.
Despite a painfully embarrassing incident at an airport scanner checkpoint, I’m still not totally on board with the sudden backlash against the new security procedures, which strikes me as oddly timed and perhaps disingenuous.
State Rep. Walker Hines seemed like he was in a hurry this morning as he grabbed a quick beverage at a coffee shop in Broadmoor and drove away in a black Cadillac Escalade. Shortly thereafter, this Times-Picayune news story broke:
National attitudes are shifting on a particular set of issues, representing a long-term trend that will continue for generations -- and this may coincide with the “Kiss Cam” barrier being broken.
