Library Chronicles

Back in our formative years of football understanding, we took it as a matter of course that every year there'd be a fourth string runni...

Is Stephanie Grace the first local political pundit of any consequence to finally point out just how conservative the current city administr...

I'd take some time to describe to you how busy I am today but that would just waste this one quick moment I've got to say anything a...

Thank god they've got all this money for legal pushback because whoever would come to their aid otherwise? BP Plc (BP/) sued the U.S. ...

Jeff Duncan just posted a NOLA.com story referencing this NFL fan loyalty index created by Emory University . The Saints do quite well, as ...

Or maybe one of those stoppages in play so we can get the crazy fans who stormed the field (Robert Adley, Garett Graves, Bobby Jindal)  roun...

Is it really 2016 already ? Chris Christie said he wants to win things, unlike certain other Republicans, at the Republican National Com...

A few of us have been asking for several months now about the source of the city's crackdown on go-cups . I’m at Booty’s in the Bywat...

Rodney Alexander "I wouldn't say no to anything," Alexander told The News-Star on Tuesday . "Everything is on the tabl...

The long and inevitably sad story of the city's "recovery" ultimately ends up being a restoration of sorts.  What we're lo...

At last night's District C Community Budget-O-Rama Crazy Complaint-and-Condescension-Fest , the Mayor took a few opportunities to explai...

As expected, the legislative hearing on the SLPFA-East lawsuit was like a comedy sketch about just how thoroughly the oil and gas industry o...

Lens live-blog here . Last week, John Barry laid out the levee board's case for their lawsuit in an op-ed published in the Times-Picay...

Download GNOCDC's report here from their website . You can't find the report in the Advocate article that describes it because, ...

Jerry Romig to retire as Saints public address announcer NEW ORLEANS - Jerry Romig, the iconic voice of the New Orleans Saints for nearl...

The above is my humble suggestion for Bill Cassidy's campaign slogan. Bill Cassidy Senate event in Metairie: Cassidy supporters have ...

The city's noise ordinance working group has hired a firm to develop what they're presenting as a "less anecdotal" study o...

The Lens has a live-blog up starting at 10:00 AM

Last week, the city announced this year's slate of community budget meetings. Here they are. District C Tuesday, August 13, 2013 L....

BP is done paying for anything . BP’s media attack   And yet, the oil giant has continued to say it didn’t agree to what’s being paid...

A "sellout" crowd gathers to absorb the electricity of NFL pre-season football. It's Pre-Season. Capture the magic. Bradley...

Over the weekend, The Advocate ran a long feature on the Wisner trust story Dambala has been all over these past several months. Do take ...

We're beginning to get a clearer picture of why Rodney Alexander retired from elected office.  Apparently there's too much democracy...

I was just wondering when the revised hurricane forecast (the one that takes into account that there haven't really been very many hurri...

National headlines this morning: Front page of today's USA Today : In the past eight decades, Louisiana has lost 1,880 square miles ...

Been feeling lately an awful lot like Doogie in this video... which, incidentally, should be receiving more local attention than a stupid Di...

BP is digging in . Monday's motion was filed with Barbier, who is overseeing the settlement and other federal lawsuits against BP ste...

Stephanie Grace: Levee lawsuit already mired in politics In theory, the levee authority, the product of a post-Katrina reform drive to r...

And hey maybe that's explosive . But I'm not sure how suspicious it is. Are we done with these yet?

Which one of these 20 firms has a job waiting for Congressman Alexander when he retires after this term ? Winning answer gets a free work v...

Just about the entire Jindal universe wrapped up in this . The Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, or BRF, has more li...

If you're still waiting on the second half of the trial to learn whether BP will ever be made to pay for repairing the Louisiana coast, ...

I've been saying this forever now but the time is fast approaching when our legal and corporate infrastructure will have figured out how...

The Saints are kind of desperate for journeyman receivers right now.  Apparently any idiot will do .

Drew Magary's "Why Your Team Sucks" series at Deadspin is always a preseason must-read. Today, the Saints are the victim.  I...

The devastating effect reduced Algiers Ferry hours are having on these businesses is certainly worth talking about . But for whatever reason...

A short couple years ago BP hired this Pentagon PR flack to be its new.. PR flack . Back in April 2010, when BP's Deepwater Horizon ...

Question everything you're told Just take a look around you At the bitterness and spite Why can't we take over and try to put it ...

This is a Romenesko blurb about John Georges admitting to lying about a meeting he apparently didn't have with the Newhouses. But then,...

Thanks again, BP Dr. Cova Arias, professor of Aquatic Microbiology at Auburn University, and two of her lab members had rather disturbin...

I posted a version of this travel guide to the "new" downtown New Orleans amusement area on a parallel internet earlier this week....