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Thursday, June 06, 2019

It's a moveable feast

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Very important to make sure you get your election dates in proper tune with the lunar cycle . BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will shuff...

Paging Jackie Clarkson

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In the year of our lord 2011, during the most recent time of river flood crisis, one New Orleans City Councilperson proposed a rather pro-a...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

I will be extremely surprised if...

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If 2016 taught us all one thing we should have known already, it is that making big bold predictions about what definitely is or is not goi...

We have to do something

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They delayed the Morganza again .  Enough pussyfooting around with all the knobs and dials on the river. Time to call close enough good en...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

The shitty season

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The shitty part of the year is here, folks.  Walk outside and suck in a deep breath of the hot stagnation we like to call summer. It all sho...
Saturday, June 01, 2019

It's a good thing S&WB is flush with cash now

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Looks like they've got some judgements to pay out . The New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board will have to pay nearly a half-million...

This round goes to Motwani

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The epic clash of New Orleans Real Estate Dickheads playing out on Frenchmen Street is not over, though . At least according to Sidney it is...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Speaking of shitty laws signed by John Bel Edwards

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The pipeline protest criminalization law is going to court now . The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a...

Tantric Morganza

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They're holding back just a little bit longer . The much-anticipated opening of the Morganza Spillway has been postponed as authoriti...

One may be given to wonder what is the purpose

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John Bel signed the abortion bill just like he said he would. Despite what you might here from some of his Democratic apologists, there...

Downtown land rush

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After Katrina New Orleans received a lot of advice from urban planners about how to"shrink the footprint" of the city. We were tol...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Morganza watch party

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There's an historic event going on out there . Flooding in at least 8 states along portions of the Mississippi River – due to relentl...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Maybe Sidney can buy it

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Probably we shouldn't speak such things into being but Sidney has been running around scooping up iconic New Orleans properties as well...

Could make for a real hot summer

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Well these are some fightin' words right here . The key details of a teacher pay raise remained unresolved Tuesday with nine days lef...

The Bungalows

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Maybe you've been reading t his WWLTV and Advocate series on Ken Matherne's animal scam in Folsom.  It's not exactly news. Math...

NIMBY neighborhood associations

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There are a lot of different things to focus on with this OPSB and HANO land swap deal . But the important detail is the neighbors are suing...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Updated: Transdev must does have pretty good odds

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RTA is in the process of deciding on whether or not it wants to renew its relationship with Transdev this year or contract out operations to...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Is the rent too damn high?

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I wish somebody would tell me because there is just no way to know for sure . Still, in cities like New Orleans where job opportunities ha...

Paying attention

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This is a pretty  good Grace column about the way the political ground has shifted under John Bel with regard to abortion. There's a pr...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Tiered reentry

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After this week, the city is turning off the school zone cameras for the summer . (Yay!)  The trick, though is figuring out when they turn t...

It shouldn't be this hard

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Given the amount of yelling and screaming that had to be overcome to permit this development in Bywater, it really should have been worth mo...

Morganza

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Just a few weeks ago they said they weren't going to have to open it.  Turns out maybe the river is deciding for them . Boyett said th...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Go along to get along

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Cedric Richmond is not exactly what you would call a risk taker . With a field of at least 23 presidential candidates to choose from, m...

The boil order decade

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No word on whether or not this will actually be one .  Maye S&WB will retcon it eventually .
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

The man for our times

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Someday it will all make sense to historians.  There really isn't any person more perfectly suited to have been President during this ...

The slave trade in Louisiana

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Let's see we've got public health services outsourced to a non-profit with political connections. We've a bunch of money in publ...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Well that seems bad

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Is that bad? The last time the Mississippi River was this high for this long, it prompted the federal government to build the modern l...

Golden age of grifting

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The new opportunity zone rules are deliberately designed to spawn thousands of ineffectual and unaccountable tax shelters. While the sche...

The boil order (and street flooding) decade

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We'd say last weekend was pretty wild but we're used to it.  A lot of rain in the space of a few hours, the streets all flood. Water...
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