Library Chronicles

Here's a short and sweet analysis of the April jobs report that generated a slew of stupidly bright happy headlines last week.  Here...

In real life when you go out in the backyard and find that something comes a-bubblin' up from the ground, it's not quite the ticket ...

Maybe more Kabuki than anything. Landrieu's one-page letter, by contrast, did not cite any specific provisions of the food-trucks ord...

What should we do with the toll booths ? Do we just leave them there as a cautionary memorial for future generations? Maybe they'd be an...

I was standing in line for coffee this morning with a group of people who were obviously in town for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fe...

If I could wish for people to understand just one thing about how people try to manipulate them, it might be this : The fact that somethi...

Back in October, the consultant who created Mitch Landrieu's "NOLA for Life" publicity campaign made this prediction to a Loyo...

But you knew that already .

This is shocking news to some, I realize . Part of the theory behind a heavy police presence in high-crime neighborhoods -- the zero-tol...

Do you think, "Kill For Your Biscuit"? Or something more cryptic like "GWWKAMFAB" or maybe just "Smell Biscuits....

In Bobby Jindal's Louisiana, biology students don't just have to dissect small animals.  They learn to read the entrails as well. ...

Today is "Mission Accomplished Day" (10 freaking years later!) Never forget the heroes . Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush ...

Today Mitch Landrieu vetoed the new Food Truck ordinance, mostly because this vitally important issue hasn't been in the headlines nearl...

The publicly subsidized lifestyle of "Hollywood South."   Someone should make these freeloading studios do some real work for my t...

I know there are people applauding this for whatever reason , but I don't see it. John Georges, who took over a small family company a...

Marble freaking columns. Al Copeland's survivors are negotiating with Jefferson Parish officials to erect a statue of the late fried c...

Okay, no, not quite like that, anyway. NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune will launch an additional print publication that will appear thr...

The so-called  "Second Battle of New Orleans" fight to defeat the riverfront expressway has passed into mythology. It has become ...

The Advocate: HOLY CRAP Maybe somebody should do something.  It looks like a lot of people are willing to .

Prologue: One day before Tharold Simon Day in his hometown of Eunice, LA, the former LSU corner  managed to get himself arrested .  “Thar...

This week's American football news begins high in the Andes . Veteran NFL linebacker Scott Fujita, who enjoyed his most successful se...

City Council was supposed to hold a hearing on reforming the controversial NOPD detail system today but then decided they would rather not. ...

The Atlantic throws cold water on all the hot entrepreneurialisms loose in these here parts. In an article titled "Entrepreneurship ...

Just in time for mosquito and roach season . Louisiana’s coastal marshes can be noisy places with insects buzzing and chirping constantl...

In addition to the obvious increase in the sophistication with which government and commercial authorities are able to shut down things they...

Yesterday we noted that, in the New Orleans area alone, we've managed to count 7 incidents of false alarm "suspicious package"...

By my count this is the sixth paranoid freak-out over a random object  laying around the metro area has seen in the past 5 days. Please sto...

The People Say Project breaks out the Hulu in order to elaborate on Marlin Gusman's analogy . Pretty obvious one here: Bunker as meath...

I never even got  chance to try Mais Arepas. I hope they can absorb the increase. Also, there have been various plans for "re-vitalizi...

Certainly loud enough to serve as an alarm, anyway. In the risk-management plan, West Fertilizer said the "worst-case scenario"...

Gusman notarized documents connected to Richard Molenaar's bid rigging scheme . Molenaar -- who has been charged in a bid-rigging sch...