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City Council supports reinstatement of New Orleans red-light camera system

Can't wait to watch the awesome return to fiscal responsibility . Not that you heard this from anyone during the campaign, especially no...

I can't make up my mind as to whether the current Democratic President's failed attempt to govern from the right is more like Carter...

Obviously the first thing that needs to happen now is filibuster reform. Let's see if Obama mentions that today.

As it stands at a little after midnight, it's looking like +65 or more in the House and +6 or 7 in the Senate. So I overestimated the Se...

It's a sloshy election day in New Orleans. I'm not sure how much this is going to affect the local races other than reinforce the li...

Krugman: Look, it might have been slightly better if Obama had acknowledged the economy’s problems more forthrightly, rather than continuin...

Exhibit 50 billion

As in Huey P. Huey P. Long wants to turn the lights out on DuWayne Bridges’ tenure as Alabama House District 38 representative. Literally. ...

Comes from Deadspin's Drew Magary : We elect a bunch of assholes who promise change, then we turn around and elect a bunch of new asshol...

Surely I'm not the only one who gets the impression that this is really an argument over whose friends get to lose the money next . The ...

Meffert is expected to plead guilty today. The question on my mind right now is which T-P editorial columnist will be the first to trot out...

All good if you're in the club, I guess.

Hey how 'bout dem Hornets, right? No? Okay well I'm about to try and get Menckles and her bum knee down to the Superdome in time to...

AZ pulls up a Taibbi quote that says it pretty well. I grew up around journalists. In the 50s and 60s, Journalism wasn't a profession. ...

I think I've made it abundantly clear over the years that I'm fairly unhappy with and distrustful of the Democratic Party and Presid...

Some secrets are too important to let go of until game time. The New Orleans Saints will wear black jerseys for the first time in the Super...

Yes there will be a late football something or other either tonight or tomorrow.

Quote of the day from The Lens' continuing coverage of the city budget hearings . Clarkson said the council cuts money, not services, ad...

This week's South Park episode featured a character called Captain Hindsight, a superhero imbued with the power to confront major crise...

It's strategically pointless to wait until the garbage time of the final days of a campaign to come out swinging, but Melancon demonstra...

Last night President Obama appeared on The Daily Show where Jon Stewart asked him some fairly easy questions mostly about politics instead ...

Sobriety checkpoint last night in Bywater. Hope you didn't get Serpased.

I've been playing home nurse these past few days so there hasn't been a whole lot of time to look at the news. Here is a brief impr...

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People hate them. Courts keep chucking them out . No reason not to err on the side of assholery, though. It's not clear what will happen...

Seems there's quite a premium on stress relief in New Orleans today. Hang in there, kids. You still have a nifty trophy to look at.

Happy Saturday!.. night... or possibly early Sunday morning... whenever this post gets up eventually. Much like the Saints' offense we...

Really getting hard to keep up with all this flashing on and off .

You know if you change just one or two circumstantial details, these stories about Rand Paul's fraternity days aren't all that diffe...

Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department advised Americans against traveling in Europe , and particularly in France, due to new (but se...

Not usually into blaming the victim but, at the very least, wouldn't most of us have become more vigilant about locking the doors on the...

Just in time for holiday travel. Over the next few days, the federal Transportation Safety Administration will start using four whole-body ...

Before they get contracted . The owners' ongoing talks about competitive balance, profitability and revenue sharing have included the no...

You laugh now, but if New Orleans neighborhoods continue to arm themselves via private security special taxing districts , it's really o...

Yesterday's T-P even points us to another helpful food metaphor to help us visualize the vanishing . "Keep in mind that if we'r...

Impressive acronyms being rolled out here . New Orleans– As required by the Louisiana Supreme Court, the New Orleans Police Department i...

When I first read that HANO was refusing to release data about voucher usage , I thought they were just obstructing efforts to analyze thei...

Also, politicians accuse one another of being politicians, Republican accuses Democrat of being a Democrat. Democrat denies that a little b...

And that concludes our Monday morning commentary. More later, of course, But... when?

I'm not usually much of a credit whore or anything but I think it's worth pointing out that we've been on this topic at the Yell...

Reviewing and servicing everyone's mortgage documents . In depositions released Tuesday, many of those workers testified that they barel...

We almost ordered Chinese food last night but then I got up and rooted around the fridge to see what I could come up with. These simple bone...

Nice to get them out in the open where we can see them. As the only citywide African-American politician on the program, Assessor Erroll Wil...

NPR tells staffers to stay away from Colbert, Stewart rallies How many NPR reporters attend Garrison Keillor shows?

Barry Ritholtz explains the Foreclosure Fraud Crisis It is a legal impossibility for someone without a mortgage to be foreclosed upon. It i...

Adrastos is trying to get everyone to calm down , which I endorse but I don't get all the way behind this reasoning. This off-season, th...

Two quotes from Sean Payton's Monday press conference via WWL's sports twittering: 1) Payton on RBs: "These are our guys. Ther...

The legal haggling over this point may end up only determining who pays the damages and not affect who gets paid at all. But it's stil...

NOPD is stopping individuals on the street for vague reasons , filling out a card with each individual's personal information, and enter...

The similarities are striking. The same nose, the same beady, squinty eyes, they even have the same stupid smirk on their faces. But it goes...