Library Chronicles

City Council voted to raise property taxes again specifically so that they could give parking garage operators a break.

Fuck him. Seriously. What a waste. If there is no Democrat in possession of the balls necessary to do the right thing and mount a primary ...

For the first time in my life I'm proud of my Senator * WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mary Landrieu, a conservative Democratic from Louisiana, lash...

Joe Lieberman: Freedom warrior. A leading US senator suggested tonight that the New York Times and other news organisations publishing the ...

Not sure what the emergency revision to the emergency property tax hike is all about. One might get the impression that Council members are...

Until the next one, of course, which will probably be in another few weeks or so.

From today's T-P front page story about the communications failures that slowed the issuance of the boil order during the water outage....

1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010 Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints on locking up their tenth winning seaso...

At the end of his Lens column on Friday , Mark Moseley draws the following seemingly logical conclusion about Bobby Jindal's potential r...

Note and apology: Very long very late re-cap of the last two weeks of Saints football with all sorts of extra nonsense thrown in. Feel free...

They seem to have worked this out , but in the future expect to see this argument made about all sorts of things we might like to have in Ne...

Joe Lieberman doesn't get to tell people what they can or can't publish . Not in this country anyway. Maybe one of these companies ...

And there you have it Privately, Mr. Obama has described himself, at times, as essentially a Blue Dog Democrat, referring to the shrinking c...

Lots of people actually believe this shit.

Cost of sanitation contracts goes down . Sanitation fees paid by residents go up . The last Mayor made a big deal out of the fact that he w...

From the City Council meeting today: The New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance, of which The Lens is a member, asked the council to let t...

TPM : In what amounts to an epic constitutionality #fail, Senate Democrats may have blown their chances to see their food safety bill signed...

Adrastos: I think, however, that PBJ is aiming at the second slot on the GOP ticket in 2012. Romney-Jindal is a definite possibility. The M...

Let's see. It's been such a fun news day so far. What else can the Obama administration royally fuck up today? How about the interne...

Fired! Eight hundred thousand American families began to lose their unemployment benefits Wednesday morning, after Republican senators blo...

Oil drilling ban to be maintained in key areas, sources say By Juliet Eilperin Obama administration officials will announce Wednesday after...

And will soon go higher: New Orleans City Council approves 6.74-mill property tax increase; trash-fee hike to $22 considered Landrieu's...

No, really. Who? Payton: Pierre Thomas could return for Saints at Bengals Also, Sunday, Messy Sunday Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochoc...

Multiple horrors occurring at once City Council is preparing to pass the budget. T-P's Michelle Krupa appears to be liveblogging the se...

Trollblog : Starting around 1968 the majority of Americans, at least, moved from being grudgingly willing to make small sacrifices in order ...

If you read one article about the Wikileaks fallout this week, please make it this Greenwald post. Before setting forth why these WikiLeaks...

When we noticed that this year's Gambit "Bar Guide" issue wisely refrained from ranking the bars according to some nebulous ...

Unlike most conventional pundits who rail against the tyranny of polarized extremism, I think the problem with our political system is the o...

When new hurricane protection levees settle, U.S. won't have to help pay repair costs Congress will no longer require the federal govern...

Will you kindly go fuck yourself? Come back when you're done paying for rich people's tax break out of nurses, clerks, and park rang...

I'm starting to think maybe Sarah Palin really could be President. Because these days leadership is basically defined by making stupendo...

Not telling you what to do with your Sunday but reading through the reporting on the Wikileaks revelations might be worth your time. Even w...

Look. I gotta go to the airport and get by balls fondled by TSA. I've been trying to get this Saints post finished all day but have bee...

8 shrimpers fined for trawling in areas closed after Gulf oil spill Better ask BP for more marketing money.

Boil water order lifted across east bank of New Orleans But officials on Sunday also admitted that they still hadn't figured out what c...

This weekend's failed infrastructure excitement had me reminiscing about this long-forgotten harebrained scheme of Ray Nagin's ...

It's funny, like ha ha funny New Orleans - Lt. Joseph Meisch took the stand saying he recalls Officer Greg McRae laughing as he came dow...

From Michael Moore's site we find this telling Democracy Now interview with former health insurance industry spokesperson Wendell Potter...

Looks like Bush is ready. Where's Frenchy? It's time for the Saints to put together a win streak. Update: The Tweeter Tubes tell m...

Via the court-mandated press release: The New Orleans Police Department’s Traffic Division will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Friday, Nov...

BP contractors to collect oil buried beneath sand PENSACOLA -- BP cleanup contractors say they will step up efforts in coming weeks to colle...

Via Taibbi where there is commentary.

Trash company makes statement in its dispute with the city by creating more trash.

Audit finds widespread accounting problems at nonprofit linked to Jefferson Parish councilman Dambala suggests that Lee, a close ally of Co...

According to reports from WWLTV and WVUE, the city just signed a new deal with Metro disposal. Recycling added, price cut in Metro Disposal ...

This morning I emptied the bookdrop and found two diet books, one book on how to pray yourself rich, one success-in-life type biography of a...

No mandatory "alternative theories to evolution" for Louisiana students . Not yet, anyway. A state advisory panel Friday voted 8-...

Must read Matt Taibbi piece on the foreclosure crisis . For most people, the former bit about homeowners not paying their damn bills is the ...