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Seems at least one logical solution to this growing problem . That brings us to Google — as happens sooner or later with any discussion t...

Remember last week at the OPP consent decree hearing when  the city's attorney Harry Rosenberg made a "states rights" sort of ...

Changing the Channel: The Renovation Question (1977) A film by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker Alvarez and Kolker were part of the filmmak...

You know you're getting really really old when you see a professional football player say this . "I haven't kept up much with...

Thought we covered this this morning.  No need to update the story . On NOLA.com, this is what the comments section is for. Note : This p...

Check out the photo . If you didn't know who these people were and I told you they were a post-punk Blondie rip-off planning a reunion s...

Pedicab "pilot period" extended to 9/15/2013. Gisleson Palmer says it has been a successful program. Council committee report due...

Eventually everything will be published there, anyway. The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility has de...

Interesting phenomenon going on in Jefferson Parish.   Suburban parading organizations have become unhappy with the "traditional" ...

Actually not at all. It's just that in the moments I haven't been overloaded with actual things and work and stuff I've been jam...

Everyone dies. Even the monsters .  There's something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual th...

Reporters in Mayflower are being threatened with arrest by the local police there because, well, because that's what Exxon wants . Lo...

Friday was the 45th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Assassination. The Bill Moyers show this week looked at King and the struggle for ...

BP's appeal of Judge Barbier's own ruling heard by Barbier. Barbier upholds it .  Kinda nice when it happens to the right people for...

Maybe not the sexiest fight card today but here it is . Mayors of Gretna and Westwego, judges and councilpersons in suburban areas, and o...

Last night, Zack did a good job making the Bill Maher show less of a bore than it normally is. HBO doesn't make the whole show available...

Sherriff Gusman just delivered a really bizarre press statement.  I'll.. just.. wait for the scribes who were on the scene to write it u...

Actually happens more frequently than you may think . The Daily Show is very good at media criticism. Only fair to occasionally terrible whe...

Nobody reads through all the terms and conditions. You just click, "Agree" to the thing. Even if you think it's a bunch of bul...

Every day it's something different.  One day the highs are in the 80s, the next they're in the 60s only to shoot right back up again...

Andy Kopplin: Gusman wasted FEMA money by building a huge kitchen; he could have used that money to build a mental health facility. #nola ...

How quaint. Africk: "Do you not think that Orleans Parish Prison has to comply with the U.S. Constitution?" #OPPConsentDecree ...

Look at all this money he's giving away to Matty Ice and Kobe . Rep. James Armes, D-Leesville, who represents Vernon and Beauregard p...

Mark Laflaur 's new novel, Elysian Fields is out this week. There is a launch party Friday night at Mimi's and a reading scheduled ...

Bobby Jindal has run the most ethicsy administration ever .  Thank goodness the voters responded to his 2007 campaign's call to slay the...

Your Orleans Parish Prison system, that your Mayor says we can't afford to fix. NEW ORLEANS - A federal court hearing regarding the p...

These are starting to look like late second term Bush numbers . BATON ROUGE, La. -- Approval of Gov. Bobby Jindal continues to slip among...

April 1 is, of course, the only day it is legally and scientifically possible to schedule a fairness hearing regarding the Orleans Parish Sh...

In other sports news, we are now a mere month away from the 2013 NFL Draft which, according to the Mayan calendar, is the most speculated ab...

Believe it or don't, this is a thing that continues to have meaning for many people. Here is a funny article about hot dogs.

A lot of good ideas expressed here . After several years of talking about these problems, it's gratifying to see the conversation begin ...

I wonder this (finally) means the legislature won't just give him whatever he wants . That plan has been hammered by both industry gro...

June 2011: Bobby Jindal crams Bruce Greenstein into the office of Secretary of Health and Hospitals despite controversy stemming from obviou...

If you live in New Orleans, you understand that there are certain environmental hazards that come with it.  Carcinogens in the air , chemica...

My goodness it has been a busy week in NOLA law enforcement circles. Where does one even begin?  Today we were treated to competing press ev...

Councilwoman Cantrell will host a community meeting focused on police enforcement of Mardi Gras parade ordinances this Saturday at the Latte...

Sorry I've been out most of the day.  Has anything been going on ? Update : Other banjo

The so-called "bold experiment" Dambala mockingly questions by defining as "put an ultra-conservative managing editor from T...

Even LABI hates it. Last November the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) met to approve the...

It's hard to explain to people who weren't there at the time the strange paradox of Clinton Derangement Syndrome. Here was a Preside...

I'm not Catholic but, thanks to the lingering cultural immersion of a New Orleans upbringing, I do find myself fretting over whether to ...

And going up NEW ORLEANS -- The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says people who buy federal flood insurance need to plan ...

Well, okay, just the bridge is... for now . NEW ORLEANS - The Regional Planning Commission has passed a resolution to turn the Crescent C...

Justice Alito: Justice Samuel Alito described gay marriage as newer than such rapidly changing technological advances as cellphones and...

It may be time to re-think some of these tax incentives . Social media lit up with complaints when CBS hung a sign on Andrew Jackson’s sta...

Seems like most everybody hates Bobby Jindal's "tax swap" plan. These ministers hate it .  Religious leaders from across ...

The details of the RESTORE Act disbursements are making it appear less and less restorative every day . While the allocations to those f...

You know how much I hate to say I told you so . A federal grand jury is investigating the Jindal administration’s award of a $185 million...

I've got more on this and some other issues coming, but before I get to that, I wanted to highlight something that caught my eye in this...

Payton said, "I don't think everything happens for a reason. I'd say everything happens." Concerning his suspension. — L...

Moseley does well with this metaphor . Some fellow pundits claim the scandals involving online comments and possible prosecutorial miscond...

Wild Magnolias Second Street St. Joseph's Night 2011 Some years I make it out to see the Indians on St. Joseph's Night. Some yea...