Library Chronicles

So Scurlock is gonna run one of those campaigns , I guess... Scurlock could best be called “The Fun Man.” A 54 year-old Republican, Scur...

Troy Carter wants clearer signage and he wants it now .  Taking aim at New Orleans' traffic cameras, a bill has been filed in the legi...

The legislature is back in session. You may already be aware of this having felt the customary disturbance in the force . This is going to b...

It's neat how there's $65 million available to do "moving walkways" and "sleek overhangs" on a refurbished Conv...

Look, just hope nothing  bad ever happens to you in this city. Even the DA isn't really on your side if it does. In one 2016 case, a ...

Is this literally a thing he said or is Grace paraprhasing ? Either way, bravo. This is a guy who boasted during his first, failed run fo...

When everybody is finished with the United Airlines outrage, we're about to be on to a cycle of reaction to this nugget from Sean Spice...

Larry Holder looks at what the Saints draft position might portend.  It doesn't look good. Your days leading up to the draft may be ru...

So the city is having trouble finding a contractor. And there are a couple of (very long shot) bills in the legislature aimed at stopping t...

A week or so ago, when LaToya Cantrell (kinda sorta quietly) announced her candidacy for mayor, she did so by putting up some clumsy languag...

One aspect of Katrina that doesn't get talked about quite enough is the way middle and working class people were actually penalized for ...

The councilpersons are always cranky when they get this close to the end of the their term s. Uproar over a public letter. A derisive reha...

Can't imagine why that would be.  Probably because they see too much "Fake News" that should be censored or something.  Or may...

Remarkably, the city has had little difficulty identifying some companies willing to suck profits out of a public asset .  New Orleans cou...

All the Hurricane Seasons are below average, though . Hurricane forecasters at the University of Colorado are predicting a below-average 2...

The pretext here is bicycle safety . The inevitable result, though,  is more revenue-driven harassment of bicyclists and pedestrians to matc...

Bannon actually says the word, "cuck" when he's mad . Thought that was just a thing the Reddit frogs typed to one another.

I guess to be fair we should note that they're all like this, but there's something extremely Mitch about the out-sized grasping fo...

Lead paint is good now, apparently . Eat some every day. Environmental Protection Agency officials are proposing to eliminate two program...

Despite the numerous, strenuous objections voiced here , the city seems intent on plowing forward with a plan to close Bourbon Street (and a...

But, maybe I'm wrong and they really don't know what they're doing . Conservatives outside of Congress said Wednesday that eff...

The Saints are releasing 35 year old Luke McCown , who has backed up the 38 year old Drew Brees these past few seasons and replacing him wit...

The Republicans are going to pass ACA repeal.  Just because they couldn't get it together to win a Big Showdown doesn't mean they st...

Maybe if he pays for this we can consider LaSalle Street even . Only one bidder has submitted a proposal to take down three Confederate m...

The charter school movement was always about re-institutionalizing segregation by re-branding it in progressive sounding rhetoric.  This isn...

The most disturbing thing about Jeff Landry is his lack of imagination. Investing big money in last year's trend is the surest way to fa...

Hard to think of a more perfect allegory of late capitalist dystopia than Uber driver shoots carjacker .  Maybe if it was a self-driving car...

Last week the NFL voted to allow the Oakland Raiders to move to Las Vegas. The reason, as always: pure extortion . The relocation feels...

Never figured out if that was supposed to have been hyphenated or whether an "and" was omitted. It's just one of many reasons ...

The Mayor's Cousin Gary is at it again . Gary Landrieu is feuding with the mayor on Facebook. https://t.co/mY0Ewrw0nl pic.twitter.c...

It seems highly unlikely that anyone involved in planning the Bourbon Street excavation would not have already thought about how it might a...

DeMarcus Cousins : Someone recently asked Cousins if he enjoyed his first Mardi Gras experience in New Orleans. "Did you see the pi...

Watch neoliberalism work, y'all The warning letters arrived in Flint mailboxes in early March. Their demand, of almost unfathomable ...

This article does a pretty good job of talking about the problem of life in the 'trep age.  The root of it is the ego-driven bullshit...

We are going to defeat climate change by unlearning about it . Over the past two months though, I’ve been navigating a different type of ...

RTA. Where tourism is everything and workers who serve tourists are shit . Peter Barrett, a restaurant worker, said late-night bus rides f...

Will the last free thinking person to be chased off the internet please turn out the lights?  From now on, everything you do, say... or even...