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Mitch speaking yesterday , "I am giving notice on behalf of the city of New Orleans that we need to enforce the law now. At some point ...

Looks like Mitch and Serpas are getting ready to pepper spray some hippies out of the way so we can look all nice and pretty during the Ne...

The Lens : Parking lots? An aquarium? Enviro groups question state bids for spending BP bucks The $1 billion fund set up by BP is supposed t...

It's virtually impossible to shock anyone at this point with the sums of cash shoveled out to the money trusts during the bailout. But t...

Hey look, the Senate just got "past the polarization and got something done." Clancy would be proud. WASHINGTON -- The Senate vo...

I am going to just leave it here until I'm somewhere I can drink as soon as I see the phrase "bucking the trend". City Busines...

Amazing that this one piece of moderately reasonable tax reform is remembered as the worst thing ever to happen to Louisiana. It's cert...

I happened to catch a goodly portion of "A Very Ga Ga Thanksgiving" last week. (Don't ask. I was at a party where other people...

Reggie Bush is an idiot

Wondering why Sean Payton wore this hat to his press conference this week? Well, for one thing, his team shares LSU's embarrassment of ...

Basically that's what this boils down to . On Oct. 30, the Saints strolled into St. Louis as huge favorites against the Rams, who were w...

I know it's a Saints game day and all but do yourself a favor and read these one-liners from a retiring Rep. Barney Frank as he slags o...

Just imagine if we all had to write letters of apology for every obnoxious thing we ever tweeted. Thanks to Sam Brownback for not letting us...

It's bad enough that Times-Picayune writers routinely include the name of the Superdome's "naming rights" sponsor when re...

Exclusive Uptown neighborhood illegally fences off a public space . Somehow nobody gets pepper sprayed.

This will be fun . The Tracey's vs Parkway meme was starting to get a little boring. And also disappointing personally because I recent...

People tweet mean things about politicians every day. But only Sam Brownback will call the principal's office on you for doing that. But...

Holiday magic smells like pepper The usual Black Friday shenanigans across the country were marked by the emergence of a new trend: pepper s...

LSU-Arkansas is the most annoying series in all of college football. It shouldn't be, given its history of close games with major conse...

Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a big deal . The WVUE-TV story also raised questions about whether there was a rush to get Serpas into the...

Some idiot on Twitter is under the impression that the near century-old term of art "bankster" was just coined by Buddy Roemer las...

This is all well and good but I wish people who are old enough to know better would stop writing that "the dissolution of due process ...

During the fourth quarter of last weekend's Saints-Falcons game, I biked over to Tracey's so I could catch the end of an exciting ga...

Not too long ago we were beside ourselves with indignation to learn that Army Corps of Engineers contractors were stuffing our floodwalls wi...

Thanksgiving is coming in a few days and those of us who Mitch Landrieu hasn't chased out from under the Calliope overpass are scramblin...

Dead Huey Long : For a kingly sum of $200, the organizers of the Po-Boy Festival offered the chance to skip the lines and climb above the fr...

Kira Orange Jones on the BESE district she was just elected to represent : In a brief telephone interview Saturday, Oranges Jones made clear...

I'm not even going to go into it right now but it fits in with a lot things I've been thinking about lately regarding the failure of...

I would have thought Marcello wouldn't have had a problem with such a thing . Specifically, Marcello thought workers may unearth human b...

I think I like Alabama's new immigration law just fine after all .

Oak Street Po-Boy Festival kind of misses the whole point of the sandwich it celebrates, doesn't it? Hughey and others say the VIP buy-...

We're told by some of our more popular libertarian minds that the best way to make health care affordable is to free ourselves from all ...

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has an 88 percent favorability rating

Obviously the Taliban is infiltrating Libya via Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan .

Remember, also, that billionaire NY City Mayor Mike Bloomberg along with millionaire Baton Rouge contractor Lane Grigsby and several close a...

Herman Cain: “ We need a leader, not a reader .” It's a motto that makes at least part of this grand plan more difficult to conceptuali...

Hippies with crazy bikes, colorful hair, and mangy dogs milling about in the streets? Check Ratty homemade signage? Check Street musicians? ...

What if Jackie Clarkson, granted us “the most publicly accessible budget in the history of America, in my opinion,” and nobody showed up to...

Buddy Roemer is still a fraud. Those lurid flyers attacking Kira (Orange Jones)'s opponents are being produced by a PAC which boasts of...

Hollywood wants the feds to censor the internet just like "16 other countries" already do. MPAA members during a Congressional he...

But in the meantime, if I had to quickly toss off an observation about last week's Saints-Falcons game, it would look very much like wha...

Cut to somewhere inside Rove's head: "Mmmm cake" via Think Progress

Now that support of Occupy Wall Street is slipping in the polls , how long will it be before Buddy Roemer starts looking for a new bandwagon...

Weird legal territory we're getting into with this stuff . When the Occupy Wall Street demonstration began on September 17, protesters ...

Mike Smith is an idiot.

Well now that New York City Mayor (and Louisiana school privatization advocate ) Michael Bloomberg has reminded a Sandusky-obsessed America...

Federal laws that protect our air, water, and wildlife habitats are actually job creators .

Oh look, they've printed up more crap for us to throw away . “Don’t Trash DAT!” is New Orleans’ new anti-littering slogan, and it was in...

Our paranoid and helpless bully class responds to the out of control murder rate by making graffiti a felony . Police will write up spray-pa...

A few days ago I mentioned this Lens column about two cities' neglect of their genuine history in favor of sanitized fantasy. Philadel...

Or maybe earlier than you would have expected previously ... For more than 20 years, trumpeter Kermit Ruffins’ weekly Thursday gig at Vaugha...

Ronal Serpas sure is one to talk here . NEW ORLEANS – A group of activists are calling for an investigation into comments made by New Orlean...

Can someone explain why then Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu thought it was a good idea to politicize the State Museum director's office ?

I tried to leave a comment on The Lens website this morning but it got eaten. Maybe they fed it to their horrifying Storify monster . Who ...

It's been fun, Rick Perry. I would have said let's get rid of Ubeki beki beki stan stan but that's me. Broken record says once m...

Herman Cain has blown up to full Sheen mode now . What does it mean, though? Well, not a whole lot. Mitt was your nominee from the beginnin...

I've always kind of been pulling for Team Satan myself, anyway . Mississippi voters head to the polls today to consider a radical anti-a...

That was kind of rough. Let's get some autotune on it and see what happens. Ah, here we go.

Any actual facts uncovered will have no bearing on litigation BP, Transocean and cement contractor Halliburton filed motions late Monday i...

Breaking news via the NOLAinfo email updates. NOPD tends to use these as a PR tool. Anyway, here's what they're proud of today. In a...

Everyone knows about the recent rash of home invasions in Uptown New Orleans. Imagine what would happen if Serpas decided to just let the pe...

Nagin's New Orleans house on market No word on whether or not he's planning to move in next door to Sean Payton's family.

I'm only just now seeing this YRHT analysis from last Friday of the LSU-Bama betting line. In it, Oyster correctly saw big trouble for...

Last week we learned that the Jindal Administration had just cavalierly pissed away an $80 million grant to extend broadband service to und...

New Orleans has more than an adequate supply of preservation experts both professional and amateur. So there are always any number of opini...

Congratulations to all of the local sports heroes who managed to pretty much dominate our existence over the weekend. I've long said tha...

Jonathan Schwarz There's apparently no better place to hide things in 2011 America than in a book. That's pretty good but there are...

Just tell them all to levitate their trains to Disneyland by their bootstraps, or something. The state's social services department is ...

Somebody told me they use it to do the volcano monitoring anyway .

What a dick. Now that NBA superstars have decided to fully engage in the lockout negotiations and threaten union decertification, David Ste...

Surprising immigration news from the New York Times. The US recession is so bad now that it's actually bucking the migration trend we...