Library Chronicles

From The Advocate : Betty Jefferson, who served as the city’s 4th District tax assessor and as a member of the Orleans Parish School Boar...

If you're Uptown and you're interested in seeing some planners tell about the horrible ideas they have about what will happen to you...

Mayor Landrieu is all geared up to present his budget to the City Council tomorrow. It will be scary . Exactly how many millions of do...

How many is that? It sounds like a lot.

Sooner or later we'll wake up to what a tremendous con the "disruptors" are running .  Well... probably later we will. In the ...

And also because that one guy grabbed that other guy's neck, I guess. Here's a quick and dirty review of what happened Sunday af...

James Gill's column this morning is about ION Chariman Jay Lapeyre and his role in helping Bobby Jindal bring the SLFPA-E to heel. L...

WWLTV has created an interesting graphic there.  It's hard to know just what Giant Disembodied Nagin Head is looking at over to the le...

It's kind of been a long slow boil but it's maybe time to admit that the French Quarter as a "neighborhood"  is a cooke...

When Drew Brees is good, he's pretty good .  When he's bad, he's very very bad . While he hadn’t watched a Frontline documenta...

The Shutdown saga is not about who is "winning and losing" in opinion polls even though, the Republicans are undoubtedly losing th...

The Shutdown just got real. But the shutdown poses problems for the far smaller craft brewers, who build their businesses by introducing ...

Last night Frontline aired its much anticipated documentary, League of Denial . The film treats the NFL's deliberate cover-up of evid...

Pretty much just textbook now . Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on Wednesday defended his stance that a debt default would not have a large negati...

The Perricone Defense:   A federal magistrate judge rejected former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s request Tuesday that she force the gover...

Here's one thing that keeps bugging me about the shutdown punditry.  Every few days someone trots out a poll that says " The GOP is...

Oyster reminds us that this website turns 10 years old this month .   I don't really keep up with Jeffrey's stuff anymore. I sort ...

Here's a report . This means, technically, that Varg has blogged one more game than I have so far this season.  I'm about to fix tha...

Lens chat: What should we do with Charity Hospital? Starts at 12:30 Yesterday they asked people to tweet them their ideas. Some people ha...

One particularly amusing aspect of the Saints being undefeated this far into the season is it's time for Tom Benson's TV station to ...

This week, the Saints' tendency to play something like a "ball control" type offense was more obvious than ever. But it's...

The way this charter change is structured, the process by which one is appointed involves just as much politics. Except, it's a politics...

Stay classy, Bears fans! On the bus leaving the stadium, the Bears fans kept telling us were number one in an unorthodox way. #bearsgivin...

For a while now, I've been partial to the theory that Mayor Landrieu's plan for post-office was to sit on a tourism advisory commiss...

Antonin Scalia doesn't care for modern manners . One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. ...

Great post here about the Democrats' sudden spine in the latest shutdown standoff . But where was that realization when everyone was ...

Here are some headlines from the last several hours regarding now Tropical Depression Karen. Area returns to normal as T.S. Karen weakens ...

Yes, there's a special election on October 19.  One question on the ballot will decide a traffic court seat that, like the juvenile cour...

That's a satellite image of what was left of Karen as of about 11 AM today. You can see the center of circulation has moved a good bit...

I made a passing reference to this earlier in the week but, here's a Rolling Stone feature by Matt Taibbi on the shell game Wall Str...

Someday, somebody is going to give us the greatest book ever written about New Orleans and its politics and it will be about the Jefferson f...

So these are kind of unusual but they do happen . When I was a kid these were actually pretty great. Rare and not usually very threateni...

As you pass the popcorn and watch the second phase of the BP trial play out, keep in mind that they've already settled down into fighti...