Library Chronicles

It seems like they put this name in the list every season, lately.  It's always a dud . However, Beryl's not expected to last long...

Soooon. Very soon. But not yet . A month-long partial closure of the busy Uptown intersection of  Magazine Street and Louisiana Avenue i...

Seems like the people are a little bit upset about the Airbnbs . Sarah Cherny, an NOPD officer who lives with her mother near the house, ...

Source: The Data Center: " Who Lives In New Orleans Now?" 2018 Urban development policy in New Orleans is a confederation of ...

Looks like it's gonna rain no matter what they decide to name it . A large, disorganized area of showers and thunderstorms hugging th...

You can say this is a story about deciding to run for office . But really it is a story about getting out of politics and into a job where y...

They say winning begins at the local level, in your state house, city council, congressional district, etc. These guys are taking it serious...

New Orleans needs to do this when Gayle's SuperBow l comes to town in 2024. The FIFA World Cup is currently taking place in Russia, ...

On the very first official day of her campaign for mayor, LaToya Cantrell's very first campaign promise was about traffic cameras.  It w...

Too much things happen. I collect a lot of links but don't always write the thing. Eventually it leads to this. Of particular conce...

The new administration has identified a $7.8 million NOPD budget deficit for this year. A few weeks ago they said it was $3.6 million. So m...

So proud to see our state's wildly successful version of "economic development" via klepto-capitalism catching on in other enl...

Congratulations to Louisiana on (barely) no longer being the Incarceration Capital Of Earth . The state's prison population is now und...

Look what they reduce our country's poor beleaguered mayors to .   A Pennsylvania mayor is apologizing for posting Facebook images ur...

The Koch people are ready to drop in the paratroopers . Now that the ruling has come to pass, the group plans a flood of social media, ma...

Congratulations WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced on Wednesday that he would retire, setting the stage for a furious figh...

What happens if you ignore a fake subpoena? Is it any less or more a penalty than ignoring an order to turn over your files on fake subpo...

The gross Supreme Court issued another gross ruling today . WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a major blow to organized ...

This weekend we walked for a few blocks with the Uptown Swingers parade and second line. It was very hot out. Luckily there were some guy...

The T-P asked LaToya what the heck "being intentional" means .  She explained it by saying a bunch of words. They didn't make ...

Gill's column today  is about an ethics complaint the Southern Poverty Law Center has lodged against Louisiana DAs  pretrial diversion p...

It turns out that when all you build is nice things for rich people, then only rich people will be able to use the nice things . Now, the ...

Guys, I believe they may have done i t. The Louisiana House has advanced a sales tax measure seen as a compromise and significant movemen...

What this says, in so many words, is that S&WB's billing system was working at one hundred percent of like forty percent of actual c...

It isn't the sole reason for the "extreme deadlock" but a 2/3 majority is a ridiculous hurdle just to pass a bill . Morrell...

Kind of hovering around a once a month schedule as of late. About as frequent as legislative sessions, I guess.

All this says is that Irvin Mayfield is going to face additional charges now that he is back from Soweto .  He did come back, right? In a...

So by now I believe even CNN is starting to get a handle on the fact the executive order Trump signed yesterday doesn't have anything to...

Signs they might be ready to put this year's fight to bed. House Republican leaders are pushing the 4.4 percent sales tax rate in  Ho...

One thing that seemed like a possibility going into the latest special session was a deal to pass the 4.5% sales tax in exchange for getting...

I'm as excited as the next guy for New Orleans-to-Baton Rouge passenger rail and all.  But I'm not exactly holding my breath for thi...

She's always talking about "being intentional." What does that even mean? There can be no better investment in our future ...