Library Chronicles

If you've got some thoughts about any of the diggings up of the roads all over Uptown, the Corps would love to hear them.

Yesterday the media company known clumsily as NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune, having been denied a request for appeal, complied with a judge...

It's fun to think about how much political capital was spent and how many people died on their little hills for our milquetoast insuran...

Yes, of course he can do that job . He'll be good at it. And more people will watch him and he'll make more money and such. So, yay ...

I think I can answer this one Jindal and Villere did not responded to requests for comment Thursday as to why neither called on Republica...

There's a lot to see in this WWLTV report on the cost overruns with the Loyola streetcar project. Most of us already knew that construc...

This is a letter printed in the New Orleans Advocate yesterday from Nick Felton  Walter Powers.  Mr. Felton and Mr. Powers represent the N...

Going through the trouble of holding elections whose results are invalidated by a turnout threshold seems more expensive than just passing ...

The thing to watch for every time we see another one of these reports about how unvanished the oil is is how much more self-assured BP's...

Payday lenders are going to get out of this legislative session relatively unscathed . So now you know who to go to if you need to cover you...

Now we know why that Nagin legal defense fund website exists . Federal prosecutors are trying to seize more than $500,000 from former New...

Planning Commission just voted to deny the sale . Fence is still up, of course. Don't hold your breath waiting for it to come down.

This afternoon the SLFPA-E attorneys finally answered one of the Jindal administration's loudest complaints against their lawsuit. They ...

Eventually they're going to let the Newcomb Blvd residents buy the street. If we can just convince them to build a little moat around t...

How does 4-methylcyclohexane methanol IPA sound ? A New Orleans company is proposing to drill a 13,000-foot well in search of oil and gas ...

After having lost out on a scheme to glom taxpayer subsidized hotels and condos onto its piece of the Tricentennial Consortium WTC redevelop...

McAllister's office sure does know how to treat the ladies . Melissa Anne Hixon Peacock, who is 33 and married, has been identified a...

Don't see any reason why it can't also work for Vance McAllister . After being caught on videotape, U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister, w...

Somebody go get the historicalness scale so we can measure this thing properly .  "On behalf of the city of New Orleans, I would like...

Rest assured, unlicensed vendors, no wrestlemans are coming to overturn your carts of not-official WWE merchandise. A federal judge in New...

Ray Nagin, apparently, has a legal defense fund . NaginLegalDefenseFund.com claims that Nagin “lacks the resources for a more robust defe...

A state under siege. A lawmaker responds . Desoto Parish State Rep. Richard "Richie" Burford , R-Stonewall (motto: "A great...

On this day in 1968 Martin Luther King was in Memphis supporting striking city sanitation workers.  In today's environment, how would th...

Best to avoid trying to drive there in any particular direction for the next few years. Those blue pipes are water lines getting ready t...

There goes the neighborhood Being a real estate junkie, I’m constantly looking at properties around the city, renovating them in my mind....

Had a brief Twitter conversation about this yesterday.  In my working life I've had to deal with all sorts of personalities. I've wo...

Found this on my windshield yesterday. Not going into that good night just yet.

State Rep. Austin Badon had to pull his bill to lessen penalties for marijuana possession from consideration today.  The bill was opposed by...

Yesterday the legislature passed a bill that (theoretically) could put a stop to the SLFPAE's lawsuit against the oil and gas industry ...

The Kochs have some weird fantasies about stuff . They also have all the money, though, so we have to listen them.

Career bureaucrat Bobby Jindal proposes a health care "plan" that he says will protect you from "Washington bureaucrats"...

Mostly because it will now be up to the city council to decide. And because this is precisely what our councilpersons want . The plan’s ba...

On one side of the argument, we've got some lofty rhetoric about the city's master plan and the integrity of the urban street grid ...

Let the freedom flow over everything . WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court took another step Wednesday toward giving wealthy donors more free...

We've discovered the source of the gentrification problem and it is Marlin Gusman . Not only did the sheriff’s office overspend, Quat...

Can't get through a legislative session in this state without one of these numbers showing up somewhere . State lawmakers spent a p...

This morning I likened one of the two Six Flags redevelopment proposals to an April Fool's joke.  ( Not too keen on the other one eithe...

Dambala continues to pursue the likely rigging of the BP claims process . Just go back and read his previous stuff there for more context.  ...

Yesterday, the Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill designed to mimic (and in some ways be worse than) Texas anti-abortion legi...

Louisiana's revenue estimating process is a less than reliable endeavor as it is.  During a forum for three Louisiana ex-governors on th...

Here's a report on Louisiana's vanishing coast put together for The Weather Channel by Katy Reckdahl. Over the past 80 years al...

Saw @NoahMovie the other night at Cinepolis. Opens 3/28. Very intense! #thefloodiscoming pic.twitter.com/unqxZmzDku — Drew Brees (@drewb...

We're at the stage of the little game where Bobby Jindal pretends to now be "thinking and praying" about running for President...

Not bad. A little goofy, maybe.

All working for the banks The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should once more shame major US media ou...

It sure seems like it's taken a while to crack the open secret all the way open but better late than never . As a defense attorney, Gi...

Shouldn't somebody go out in the Gulf and try to harvest, culture, and patent the oil-eating "magic microbes"?  Seems like the...