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One wonders how such things are measured . NEW ORLEANS - Crooked businessman Aaron Bennett got a light 15-month prison sentence for bri...

Uptownmessenger : Drainage work will rope off Napoleon Avenue neutral ground during Mardi Gras 2015, officials say The Southeast Louisiana...

"Hollywood South" tax credits . Arata, a local stage and film actor and Tulane Law graduate, was a partner in VooDoo Production...

Senator Feinstein's statement delivered from the Senate floor on CIA's illegal hacking into Senate staff computers is worth a good ...

They liked Endymion as the best "overall parade" and Mid-City as the "best day parade."    I didn't see either of th...

Finally there's a city owned database that allows you register to inform on your neighbors directly to the police. New Orleans police ...

There's a lot going on in this AZ post .  Basically the city is treating BP settlement money like the NFL salary cap. The object is to k...

The Louisiana Oil and Gas Association's frivolous lawsuit was dismissed today . Attorney General Buddy Caldwell  acted appropriately i...

Alex Pareene points out something I've been trying to call attention to for a while now regarding the oft-prophesied "End Of The R...

The Louisiana Legislature goes into session today. Bobby Jindal will open the session by addressing the legislature.  The Lens has set up...

TV ads all the time, a big ad in today's Advocate , you'd think he actually had a shot at this thing. But a Feb. 26 poll by Win Pa...

Ron Forman says we are in danger of losing an arms race . If it doesn’t pass, Forman warns, New Orleans will inevitably be eclipsed in a ...

Bobby Jindal did so well at CPAC, they decided not to even include him anywhere in their Presidential straw poll results . This is pretty ...

Pres Kabacoff keeps telling us people who can't afford the rising cost of living in New Orleans " crimp economic growth " anyw...

Just show Ron Forman the money. He'll come up with some excuse for having it eventually . The Audubon Commission, which controls Audub...

Oakland has to let  Google ( a prominent defense contractor )  build a municipal panopticon because of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and stuff....

From this morning's Advocate on  the mayor's legislative agenda . Landrieu also wants legislation to forgive the city $5 millio...

This month's Mother Jones published an overview profile of Bobby Jindal's career . It's aimed at a national audience still gett...

Tigerdroppings and NOLA.com are famous internet-wide for being hosts to the most outlandishly mean, racist, sexist, what have you, comment t...

According to Lt. Governor, and Mr. Bean look-alike, the First Amendment to the US Constitution is trumped by the state of Louisiana's to...

Bobby Jindal calls Barack Obama worst president of his lifetime As it happens, Maddow is doing a doc tonight about how George Bush lied us...

It's a dirty job. Someone's gotta do it . Louisiana is one of a handful of states that has had problems finding lethal injection ...

Early voting is going on this week.  You might have missed half of it because of some activities that tend to swallow everyone's attenti...

Nothing to see, besides that . Nothing happened. That was the point. Neither Sen. John Cornyn nor Rep. Pete Sessions was ever at risk o...

"What we were trying to do is have a timeless tiger head” -- LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette on the end of a decade's long controv...

Paul Rainwater just wants to quietly collect his money now . Rainwater left the Jindal administration this week after serving as chief of...

The only bid anyone bothered to put in on redeveloping Jazzland (this time around) wants to build another amusement park TPC-NOLA Inc., a ...

Who needs facts when you have all the money in the world ? The environmental volunteers may be heartened by a first legal skirmish last w...

It's going to be a little bit of work closing the book on Mardi Gras 2014. Just try and bear with for a little bit.

Yeah that changed yesterday.

Choose your own coastal erosion entropy metaphor for the erosion of the concept of regional flood protection. St. Tammany Parish President...

I don't know what they think they're looking at .. or where they're looking. Because, from my point of view.. and I've be...

Not creepy at all Like her mother years before, Carroll found out about her honor on a family trip to Perdido Bay, Ala. But first, Carrol...

So the blog is even more crappy than usual this weekend.  I'll put some photos and stuff up later though and it will be okay.  The short...

Clancy DuBos on that Don Briggs deposition: LOGA took it a step further and filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of SLFPA-E’s contrac...

The Lafitte Corridor linear park has an actual contract to begin construction. It has been many years coming. After sorting through five...

The good news is I'm pretty much done with work now until the end of Carnival season. The house is more or less in order. I think I migh...

No, really, look out.  The graphic LAPolitics created to go with Garret Graves' announcement that he's running for Congress is scary...

He could have been Sarah Palin in 2008 but now he's just... Sarah Palin in 2014. Except it's actually worse because people still hol...

The Lens is hirin g.  Varg submits a resume.

It's the only thing that can save us from this foolishness . "I have no plans to run for governor, but I wouldn't rule it out...

But then Garret Graves spoke and things began to change . "Things are starting to take shape...Things are starting to become clearer...

SB Nation's Jon Bois has some information for you about the ways in which some teams are very bad at the NFL Draft. Even if their fail...

Update : According to The Hayride, Don Briggs' health could be a very serious issue .  That's certainly not something we'd want ...

Yay the Crescent Park is finally open. . some of it is.. for part of the time anyway.   Most of us know the story already so skip past all t...

I'm going to let myself believe The Advocate wrote this headline on purpose. Jindal erupts at White House meeting... http://t.co/YOh...