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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Congratulations, Taysom Hill

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Turns out you can be an NFL Hall Of Fame inductee and the backup to Tom Savage all at the same time.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

But what about the wax museum?

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Good news! The Cantrell Administration is not ready to give up on redeveloping the Six Flags site.  They just need another year maybe . Ne...

# City Of Oh Hell Yes

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This is how you know it's been a good day in New Orleans . NEW ORLEANS - A cement truck got stuck in a sinkhole in the French Quarter ...

Countdown to... ?

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We were counting down to a state government shutdown.  We probably aren't doing that anymore. Even though the legislature failed to fund...
Monday, June 11, 2018

The day she truly became mayor

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There is something about being the Mayor of New Orleans that renders your endorsement a near guaranteed kiss of death for whichever office s...

They don't want you to vote

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There is no rationalization or pretense to this that passes any kind of smell test.  The simple fact is they don't want people to vote a...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Yellow cinderblock

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Circa 2009 RIP Tee Eva When she came home to New Orleans, Mrs. Perry became a walking vendor of pies and pralines. She was a frequent...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

Spirit of Charity

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Who will win the Charity redevelopment derby? We are down to three contestants already .  LSU has selected three development teams it says...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Dark smoke success fail

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In only the latest of a long line of self-authoring punch lines to come out of our fine city, the Sewerage and Water Board issued a public n...

"Most risk-reduced"

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What an odd phrase . The pumps were formally declared complete by the Corps, which is responsible for building $14.5 billion in flood pro...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Show em what they've won

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All those questions we had last week about what the city was giving up to host the Superbowl, the Lens went out and got some answers .  The...

Many many Flints in waitng

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This is a national problem as much as it is a Louisiana problem.. but it definitely is a Louisiana problem . Of the state’s roughly 1,300 ...

Tone deaf

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New boss goes to old boss in record tim e.  New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is raising concerns about the City Council's "tone...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Return to Jaegertown

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Always love to pull out our old friend, the NOligarchs Map.  Yes, it needs updating. But for now, please find Jaegertown. (It's the purp...

Countdown to Shutdown

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Cameron has decided we're gonna at least push this to another special session. That's pretty much what this is about . Henry said ...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

This still exists, apparently

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Extra long and #content packed for the Memorial Day/Looming Disaster weekend
Friday, May 25, 2018

Not even enough time to do some rehearsals

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Ready or not, hurricane season is happening, guys.  Actually, why would we even bother to write it that way? Everybody knows we are not read...

Countdown to Shutdown

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On yesterday's episode of the Sinking of the Sixth Special Session, we saw the Ways and Means committee reject the Governor's prefer...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

It might be time to dump Transdev

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The T-P ran a pretty good feature last weekend on one of the more striking failures of the "Regional Transit Authority."  It has ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Countdown to Shutdown

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A little over a day into it and it's not looking great for Special Session II The Enspecialing . Wednesday (May 22) on how to go about...

"Vocal minority"

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Eric Bay is getting real close to saying anti-STR activists are "paid actors" here. Eric Bay, president of the Alliance for Neig...

#CityOfYes we still randomly stop and search your car

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It's been a while. Or maybe I just haven't been seeing the notices in a while. But I believe t his is the first official police chec...

Competitive

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Well guys, I am afraid I have some bad news and some good news.  The bad news is we're gonna have to deal with another one of these horr...

It's always boil order o'clock somewhere

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Venetian Isles today . Venetian Isles will remain under a precautionary boil water advisory Wednesday (May 23), the Sewerage and Water B...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

John Bel sounds kinda desperate

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This is from his speech this afternoon in Lafayette .  Everybody is out of ideas other than the ideas the Republicans have been pushing all ...

Oh come on

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This is because we moved the embassy to Jerusalem isn't it ?  A sinkhole has developed on the White House’s North Lawn, reporters obse...

So.. some people really were in that number

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What exactly happened here ? Yesterday the Saints sent out emails informing people that their "number had been called" on the seas...

Pressing pause again

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Who knew that when LaToya found that "pause" button during the Riley flap that she'd be starting a new rhetorical trend ? Th...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Everybody sues Ashton

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How many like this are there ? But a decade later, First NBC Bank and St. Theresa are both closed, and in the aftermath of First NBC’s col...

Resilience fatigue

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Take a look around outside this week and see how many palm trees you can spot that are starting to come back now and which ones may not hav...

Atomic Cannon

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Vice President Nixon: "Congratulations to this young weightlifter or whatever." Because Menckles is not from Louisiana, yester...
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