Library Chronicles

The bending reality shtick is not entirely original to our show but it doesn't make it any less of an achievement. We like to think of ...

Ed Orgeron : Orgeron hasn’t engendered a wisp of criticism since taking over for Miles, but his tenure won’t have as much to do with the ...

Can't imagine he's walking away without having received something for his $10 investment. The lawsuit that has held up redevelopm...

It's mid-October and we're all still sweating our ballses off . It looks like we're headed for another Halloween In The Tropics ...

Welcome to the future 

It was getting to be pretty depressing watching Hillary and the Democrats embrace and congratulate every craven Republican who suddenly aban...

I'm looking forward to the end of the 2016 campaign.  It was fun during the primaries when the Democrats were actually arguing over the ...

The state needs to just go ahead with its lawsuit against the oil and gas industry.  The opposition is dug in and is never going to meet us ...

Today was the last day to register for new voters looking to participate in November's elections in Louisiana. The Presidential race sti...

The last update from S&WB that I'd paid any attention to came several months back during the spring . At that time, we were told ...

Roscoe was a good boy LSU's live tiger mascot Mike VI is dead, LSU officials announced Tuesday. The 11-year-old Bengali-Siberian t...

Over the weekend we had to go to Ocean City, MD to attend what, I guess, you'd have to call a destination funeral. It was a strange expe...

This article is from last year but it's a great Columbus Day read.  Columbus’ landfall in the Western Hemisphere was the opening of ...

When all you do is build nice things for rich people, you run the risk of creating a glut in the market for nice things for rich people . ...

Who did we rebuild it for?  Vacation rental services like Airbnb say they offer an authentic experience , a chance to live like locals. I...

Good luck to everyone in the path of a scary storm this weekend. Seems kind of silly they're still trying to play a football game in tha...

Oh isn't it so quaint how plain and mild the VP candidates are. Except actually both of them are horrible people running on the tickets ...

So they went ahead and moved the short term rental vote just as they hinted they might.  Following years of debate and several studies, th...

Gonna be so sad when LSU inevitably disappoints Orgeron again because the boosters are gonna demand a Big Name Guy. The Tigers had signed...

This week, the mayor announced plans for a new "low-barrier" homeless shelter on Erato street at S. Derbigny just uptown from the...

Here's a pretty scary Vox article about the "lack of political will" to do anything significant about climate change.  In...

There are more candidates running for Senate in Louisiana this year than most voters would probably care to contemplate.  Astronomers estima...

City Council is talking about maybe postponing action on short term rentals that had been scheduled for Thursday. This article doesn't s...

We thought we'd open the show this week by having Lester Holt moderate a debate between former Saints head coach Jim Mora and himself fr...

On Monday, they're gonna go and make a bunch of speeches over the Rampart streetcar. Not much more to say besides this . Leo Wate...

The short term rental controversy is a perfect illustration of the divide that exists between the elite classes in government and politic...

In Louisiana we're expanding from obscene public subsidies for oil exploration into obscene public subsidies for movies about oil explor...

It was never clear just how Tom Benson was going to buy out his heirs if he couldn't offer them something of comparable value. No one is...

Sometimes, in this state, the Treasurer, or Attorney General, or the chair of some legislative committee will try and play Governor for a st...

The weather sort of hinted at maybe wanting to be fall eventually. So we made gumbo just to try and help it along. That's chicken, andou...

Thanks for the advice, buddy. As for offensive change, Alleva understands that LSU might run similar or the same plays on Saturday against...

The mayor's office worked hard to put a positive spin on these 2000 affordable housing "opportunities" but that's not real...

Looks like they figured out how to fund relief efforts in Flint and in Louisiana without having to burn the whole country down after all. ...

Fake Governor Landry is busy making policy happen . Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has blocked at least 37 state government legal...

These guys think it's their land but the judges do not sound convinced . On the question of whether doing maintenance work on the stat...

Might be some clue as to why the mayor insisted we reconsider "whole home" rental restrictions . For just $750 a night, you can ...

CNBC asks us to swallow quite a load of pig guts in this story about how hot dogs saved Freret St. While paying a little extra for a stor...

Who "won" the first Presidential debate? How does one even judge? Do we just tally up the lies?  Because something tells me that ...

The Fifth Circuit is hearing the appeal today. This is a good time to recall that the "philanthropists" who clean the monuments ou...

Congratulations to the Saints and Falcons for killing Monday Night Football .  In fact, if the numbers hold up, the game could be the leas...

You guys have to play by the same rules everyone else does .  Lusher and Lake Forest argued that they were guaranteed a certain amount of...

Water everywhere is the problem in Louisiana. Not a drop of it to drink is the problem in Flint, Michigan.  It's all one unbroken sea of...

Weird thing about this story is it doesn't tell us what the "especially disrupting incident in Treme" actually was. NEW ORL...