Library Chronicles

Resolving to keep better track of these in 2018.  Off to a rip roaring start here . In an interview with WWL-TV, Sen. John Kennedy comment...

Last month, the Advocate published a friendly profile of former Louisiana Public Service Commissioner and failed gubernatorial/congressiona...

I'm still enjoying Coach O as the LSU team mascot and everything. (Let's face it. That covers the bulk of his job description.)  But...

Here's a NOLA.com article published this morning about opposition to the surveillance ordinance . It turns out the matter has been defer...

It's silly to think that the police would ever use the video for anything inappropriate like, say, keeping tabs on political opponents. ...

According to ACLU , MaCCNO , and the I ndependent Police Monitor , this would constitute an unprecedented expansion of government surveillan...

The old folks might remember the 1987 football season fondly.  It was the first season (out of 21 tries) that the Saints managed a winning s...

The Saints had an amazing year.  It was amazing not only because the team was successful but because it was different from what fans had com...

The lame duck City Council is decamping to a broom closet in an abandoned bunker somewhere across the river for a few months.  This will n...

The new tactic in public corruption defense is to start by going after the press and hope their sources lead back to the US Attorney's o...

But you still can't run for the Louisiana House of Representatives if you don't live in the contested district. This is true even  i...

The dude is a NolierThanThou natural . While most of his Saints teammates live near the team facility in Metarie or Kenner, Kamara decided...

I don't know about y'all but I am feeling all 300 of those years myself.  Ready or not, though, it's time to play the Tricente...

That's a real big flag you got there. And, hey, nobody here is going to argue with Shep's point.  We've said numerous times ...

It's qualifying week. Who wants Helena Moreno's House seat ? After Moreno won election to an at-large seat on the New Orleans City...

Apparently Cox's tubes freeze over when the temperature gets below 40 degrees here. We've only had internet in short 5-10 minute bur...

I've got some year-end posts that will probably be up by, like, sometime next week.  But meanwhile, I've been busy on Twitter making...

Apart from the pro-forma assumption that the election should have been about something besides what it was actually about, this N.O. Tribun...

Sidney Torres is being discouraged from "investing" in New Orleans . Torres is now raising holy hell about the Board of Zoning A...

One of the first things we learned about LaToya Cantrell's mayoral campaign happened on the day of its official launch. During her speec...

All your favorites are back ! What could be a critically important relationship between the city's newly elected mayor and state lawma...

Well they passed it. What now? For most of us, it means that, in February, we're going to get a little bump in our paychecks . Of course...

I never picked a side in the race to select the next Inspector General. I did offer several times to do the job myself but I am afraid my sa...

They're trying to come up with a framework under which a zombie FNBC can turn a billion hypothetical dollars worth of tax credits into a...

The subpoenas have always been fake. Cannizzaro's real innovation was slightly better formatting, it seem s. In defending the notices,...

I don't have any doubt that LaToya Cantrell's attorney is correct in saying Jeff Landry is subpoenaing her personal banking records ...

It's a few days before Christmas and we all know what that means.  Super Krewe Royalty announcements! This year the assemblage of has-be...

Don't look now but we're only two months away from the next special session of the Louisiana Legislature (probably.) This would be ...

He's definitely having a little media moment this past week or so. . @SenJohnKennedy on GOP tax plan: "I think a lot of Americ...

I'm still happy to advise anyone looking to run against Steve Scalise next year.  As an example, here is an idea. Just keep asking him w...

Not really but... Maybe for the Falcons game? pic.twitter.com/JgDB1IrE7O — skooks (@skooks) December 16, 2017 Unfortunately, people ...

It's probably not a great idea to keep track of these. We're all well aware of John's quoteable-for-sake-of-being-quoted clown a...

The literal stupidity of our age of stupid literal-ism is literally stupid . The company moved into the high-rise building amid much fanfa...