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Lamar has you covered . That is a comprehensive article by Lamar. It doesn't miss a beat. But perhaps its most crucial observation com...

The St. Charles streetcar rail tie replacement project has made it into the Garden District.  As far as I know, this is the final stretch of...

You know, we might could torture an innovative transit option out of this if there were two Vanilla Sky Cafes. Put one on the East Bank and ...

So it turns out the city ran a budget surplus for 2013 . At this morning’s City Council Budget Committee meeting , Chief Administrative O...

This i s an article from this morning's Advocate looking at a program passed by the legislature that would allow the city to sell lots ...

Kind of a strange association here but OK . Meanwhile, a measure to raise the occupancy tax rate on hotel rooms by 1.75 percent was pulle...

The man who basically gave the world Vance McAllister is leaving the job he gave up the congressional seat to take. There has been specul...

Don't mind us. We're just burning off another 2,000 gallons of oil we spilled .  More than 2,000 gallons of oil spilled in the Del...

Looks like they couldn't figure out how to make that special riverfront taxing district happen yesterday . It was never actually part...

The 2014 session of the Louisiana Legislature ends today at 6 pm with the traditional chicken boxing exhibition outside on the capitol groun...

Bobby Jindal has written enough op-eds by now. It's about time he started adhering to the customary standards and practices.  This is a ...

If we were to play devil's advocate for a minute with regard to gentrification, it's worth pointing out that the State of Louisiana ...

Earlier this week, the mayor likened the post-Katrina changes in New Orleans's housing market to a laboratory experiment. WWL asked how ...

This certainly can't end any way but well. They call themselves the French Quarter Minutemen and are made up of all volunteers who pos...

The city took over control of HANO today . "New Orleans has become the nation's laboratory for innovation and change," Land...

The political battle over the SLFPAE's lawsuit was featured on PBS last night. Here's the segment.

BP lost another round in appeals court today . NEW ORLEANS – The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals denied BP’s motion to keep a stay in place ...

We've got all sorts of neat stuff we need to pay for. With the exception of City Park, which falls under the auspices of the state o...

Seems like the proposed new City Hall would make a more appropriate setting for this . More than 200 people are expected to gather in fron...

Pretty good TV segment with Chris Hayes and Thomas Frank . Thomas Frank appeared on Chris Hayes' show Friday night to discuss Kansas ...

I didn't see a single buckmoth caterpillar anywhere this year. And now we've already moved on into termite season. Formosan termit...

This probably serves to further illustrate the previous post. Here we see Renee Gill Pratt is deciding to employ the very popular Chewbacca ...

Dambala has been writing about the BP claims process forever now. In the introductory text to this interview with attorney Lionel Sutton , h...

" Poll show Mitch Landrieu has good shot at becoming LA gov. " A Southern Media and Opinion Research poll on the 2015 governor...

Here is the majority consensus among the Louisiana Legislature. If oil and gas production is going to cost us  the entire southeast portio...

Hard to say any individual has been more terrible than Katrina Jackson . Jackson, a Democrat from Monroe, described the measure as “one of...

A hundred years sounds like a long time but fifty is beginning to hit the range of a decent long term investment. "Got that sinking f...

Short term rental enforcement is hard work, apparently.  Also there's a lot of it to do . Websites like airbnb.com and vrbo.com show t...

This graph put together by NPR   based on a recently released government data set purports to show median incomes of American cities adjuste...

At the beginning of the legislative session we were told that the only reason Mitch Landrieu's tax increase proposals stalled last year ...

Sure, Gambit , go ahead and run your "pimp my pothole" contest after ours is filled in. Yes, that description dares to ask, ...

Maybe they won't make us do it this time . ATLANTA — The last time New Orleans captured a Super Bowl, the final two obstacles were Min...

Even from beyond retirement, Jackie informs us that NOPD closes at 1:00 am . The new ordinance leaves the rescheduling of rained-out parad...

Not sure why he feels like we need to go all the way up to Grover Norquist to find someone to blame . State Rep. Walt Leger III, D-New Orl...

Why do anything just for its own sake ? Big stakes are involved. The new airport terminal is part of a second-term push by Mayor Mitch La...

One thing that's come out of this is we can now assume t he shelf life of your typical "good government reform" effort is abou...

It is widely hoped that the state of Louisiana's part of the federal litigation against BP for damages issuing from the Macondo spill wi...

This is a great conversation about Net Neutrality from a recent Bill Moyers show featuring David Carr and Susan Crawford. Toward the end...

This is an op-ed by David Garcia whose development firm was a partner in the Gatehouse project to renovate the WTC building. Garcia is obvi...

Welp, it's been fun The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Indecision Political Humor , The Colbert Report on Fac...

Elizabeth Warren's source might actually be overestimating us here . On Wednesday night in DC, at Public Citizen’s annual gala, Warren...

Hurricane season is only weeks away now.  The Lens has provided us with a refresher course about what our brand new better than ever flood p...

Busy week for the chief.  He's having to beat back yet another round of allegations that his department manipulates statistics in order ...

You never know where Bobby and/or his byline is going to show up next. Jindal stopped at Liberty University over the weekend in order to t...

Basically we're just moving approximately 100 jobs about 80 miles to the west so that Bobby Jindal can hand out another multimillion dol...

Internet is dead . What are we gonna do now? If we can afford it I guess we'll stream a limited selection of movies.

State Rep. Katrina Jackson An anti-abortion bill that could potentially result in the closure of many of the state's abortion clinic...

I see no other way to resolve this . The selection process to choose a firm to oversee construction of the city's new airport termina...

Thirty years ago this week the World's Fair opened in New Orleans. The Fair was never a financial success but it left several lasting ma...

Did you know ? Will this be the year the USA's luck runs out? With the Atlantic hurricane season starting June 1, the nation is en...