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Tuesday, December 05, 2017

I am available to be the next Resilience Officer

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It's a perfect situation because you get to keep your day job(s). Landrieu first hired Hebert to oversee blight reduction in 2010. The...
Monday, December 04, 2017

"Wheel estate"

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This is all very healthy and good . Things are going great. My first encounter with one group of the new nomads came in 2013, at the Deser...

Forget about it, it's Trash Town

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Very good to see the trash men who rule us are finally able to put aside their differences and allow their system of rote bribery to continu...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

Another one

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That FNBC collapse sure did touch on a lot of the "cultural economy" ventures around town . Ticket holders for a concert schedul...
Friday, December 01, 2017

Don't ever fight City Hall

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Hey guess what. Amidst all the other crazy crap going on , the 2018 city budget was passed today .  We can barely remember the hearings. The...

Confederacy of Dunces: Landrieu edition

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Staring Cousin Ken and Phyllis as Ignatius and Irene. A state judge sentenced the cousin of Mayor Mitch Landrieu and son of former Orleans...

QOTD

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Alvin Kamara : "I felt like he wanted to get jumped over, so I just jumped over him," Kamara said of the Rams' Webster. ...

They're going to pass it

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The Republicans appear to have finally figured out that they actually do control all of the government and can therefore do whatever they wa...

What are they doing in France?

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I mean, besides running up the ol' city credit card again har har har... But what is that specific roster of folks doing in France? Here...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

What if your best practices are actually the worst?

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Leaving aside the general corruption, arrogance and preference for predatory capitalism that characterizes all of American politics at all l...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Second time this month

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It's getting to where a person is less inclined to trust the local oysters . Even if one was already pretty wary. State wildlife agent...

The tax bill is soo bad

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It's comically bad. There's no way to overstate how bad it is. I know there's a lot going on just now but take a minute and read...

Why is it a "dress code"?

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Cam Newton refers to his personal style sense... meaning just the clothes that he owns... as a "dress code."   When the New Orle...

Kicking you off the internet

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It's actually been less of a swift kick and more of a gradual lowering of everybody down off the internet. Kind of like coastal erosion,...

Magic downturn

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If we don't need a "trigger" because the magic tax cuts will bring us super awesome growth, then why are they so worried about...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Maybe John will be stupid enough to save the day

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So what's going on here is Bob Corker wants to write in some emergency backstop "triggers" to the Senate version of the tax b...

Fiscal cliffs

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Anybody who has been watching the Louisiana budget process these past couple of years kind of knows this drill by now . Due to the ...

Maybe they proved "Too Big To Fail" isn't real

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FNBC failed. From the looks of things the people most hurt by this are grifters and real estate vampires. First NBC's absence from th...

They might actually pass it

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What a damn disaster . A House Republican lawmaker acknowledged on Tuesday that he’s facing pressure from donors to ensure the GOP tax-re...
Monday, November 27, 2017

So much winning

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Today Jay Banks won a recount of the District B council votes requested by Seth Bloom. This comes a week after Banks won the recount of ea...

The company store

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The Amazon Sweepstakes was always going to get out of control. And yet, we regret we must still inform you that the Amazon Sweepstakes is ou...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

"This city doesn't want you"

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NOLA.com debriefs with Bunny Charbonnet on his sister's ill fated campaign for mayor.  There's a lot of interesting stuff in there. ...
Friday, November 24, 2017

"Pushed or poked"

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Basically what this story says is lawyers don't handle low level confrontation the way most humans do. Also they take themselves extrem...

So many judges

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I'll say this for Republicans.  They tend not to waste power when they have it . In a paper that deserves credit for its transparency ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

"Better than I ever imagined"

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Remember back in January when Mitch got the convention center to pay for a bunch of "anti-crime" stuff in the Quarter ?  There we...

Kicking you off the internet

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When we look back at where the most lasting damage was done by the Trump Presidency it's going to be everything going on at the EPA and ...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Election Day

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Get on out there and capture the magic. Here are some tips for those placing wagers on things. Cantrell 62% Charbonnet 38%   Spread coul...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Preview of the 2019 Governor's race

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Jeff Landry or John Kennedy (probably both will be running) :  "New Orleans is a Sanctuary City! It is coddling teh illegals!" J...

They lie

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This is a lie. Paul Rainwater is lying . While the meeting covered a range of problems that continue to plague the agency, workers who fil...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

What did they agree to?

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Mitch Landrieu and Chief Michael Harrison had a meeting with Attorney General (for now) Jeff Sessions today about New Orleans's status a...

Parties and sleepovers

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Not sure how this settlement , if these are the terms, actually changes anything. Asked Wednesday (Nov. 15) why he decided not to continue...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Okay but what if I just want to mute the crime?

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This seems like a fantastic idea .  NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans Police Department introduced a new system Wednesday that allows residen...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

QOTD

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Rob Maness who apparently hosts a radio show But his tone changed abruptly when the caller, who identified himself as "Flaming Liber...

Probably they should fire some more team doctors

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The Sewerage & Water Board's Turbine 3, much like Delvin Breaux,  has suffered a "setback" and will now miss the remaind...

Gabbo details

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Here's what Governor Edwards and an assembly of VIPs told us yesteray afternoon about the DXC subsidy .  About $25 million of the stat...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Gabbo is coming

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What is it? Who is it? What does it want from us? Will it please just tell us what to do ? Gov. John Bel Edwards is set to make a major ec...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Down here in the content mines

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Been a little quiet this week on the blog. That's partially because the fake radio show can be a pain in the neck to book, record and ed...

Inside the Money Club

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The FDIC report on the First NBC collapse is out . The Advocate doesn't report anything especially juicy although they point out that i...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Bringing in the experts

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About a month ago , an entity known as the "LSU Real Estate and Facilities Foundation" announced its intention to start up the nex...
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