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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

No point besides being mean

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Yes this is just another version of what we were saying yesterday. So rolling back Raise The Age has no clear public safety benefit, is crue...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Just being mean on purpose

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The majority of your legislators are just mean people who are motivated entirely by a politics of being mean .  All but one of the Republica...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Give it another fifteen years, I guess

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Joseph Bouie's very mild attempt at giving the Orleans Parish School Board a little bit more of a direct legislative instruction to do ...
Friday, May 20, 2022

That thing where all the investigations cancel each other out

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Oh boy, we've reached the going around and confiscating everyone's computer phase of the game.  New Orleans Inspector General Ed Mi...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Just mashing buttons

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Logistical supply of goods and services is not a magical thing that just happens. Americans' extremely limited understanding of economic...
Friday, May 13, 2022

They're still thinking about it

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This site was never a great store of content anyway but if anyone is wondering why it's been especially sparse lately, it's because ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Aggressive

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Out of state investment firm becomes absentee landlord to local apartment building.  You won't believe what happens next .  Passco Compa...

Well it has been a roller coaster ride

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The city's agreement with Troy Henry's development company to turn Six Flags into.. well... first into some warehouses and then mayb...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Billy Nungesser: Climate pessimist

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Plenty of interesting points in this story .  A lot of people in it are mad at Billy. Congressman Garret Graves is mad.  The Coastal Protect...
Monday, May 09, 2022

Teachers aren't going to break the budget

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There's a certain logic to what the so-called "fiscal hawks" are arguing. We do not want to repeat the Jindal era cycle of de-...
Thursday, May 05, 2022

Ok but what are you going to do?

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No doubt the *impending ruling* whenever it becomes official, will set off a round of statements from political organizations and elected pe...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Nothing sadder than a grounded PILOT

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RIP Drive Shack. Latest victim of the pandemic? That's what these photos NOLA.com just published seemed to indicate .  There's no a...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Continuing with the quality work up there

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There's so little to say about the Legislature at this point. We know who they are and what they're about . The Republican majority ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Going with the feels

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 Incredible work by these highly literate lawmakers With the committee's action to advance SB418 without anyone objecting, the legislat...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Galaxy brain meme

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Ag commissioner Mike Strain says   Crop production could suffer if rising global temperatures are not addressed sooner rather than later, Lo...

Just don't be boring

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What I was actually trying to tell Ralph here is that the post-Payton era can involve the Saints winning a lot of games or losing a lot of...

RIP the Richmond Presidency

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News: @CedricRichmond is expected to leave the White House next month, making him one of first close Biden advisers to leave. He'll ent...
Friday, April 22, 2022

"Perfection is not the goal"

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It's looking like the NOPD is closer to being released from the decade-long federal consent decree intended to clean up systemic abuse a...

Magic moments

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If you can't put a price on magic, why is it something you are able to go to court over ? “For me, it was not simply a question of brea...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Fire and loss prevention department

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 Oh no, Billy! Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser's Plaquemines Parish home was burglarized Thursday, according to the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff...
Thursday, April 14, 2022

Maybe somebody should do something?

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The public got too good a handle on what case numbers, hospitalizations, and percent positives meant so they had to shuffle the metrics arou...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Wonder how that time sensitive irreperable harm manifests

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Sounds to me like somebody has turned their Jazzfest perks into a lucrative business of some sort .  The newly revealed court documents indi...

Even the little ones are too big to fail

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Turns out when all the important people in town know each other and spend all their time passing money back and forth, it doesn't matter...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Solving the wrong problem

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Today's noladottimespicayadvocate is running a feature article on the carjacking phenomenon . The local one, anyway. The general fact th...
Friday, April 08, 2022

All the Hurricane seasons are above average

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And this one is no exception .  Another busy hurricane season appears likely, with an above-average number of storms predicted this year, a...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Dismissed

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Really brilliant way to word the legislature's bid to completely de-fund public education in Louisiana.  They're "allowing...

Actually, the consequences are very much intended

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Despite the Planning Commission's 6-2 vote against, there is little reason to believe that City Council won't turn around and just a...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Will we ever Make It Right?

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We have to say it's a remarkable trip the City of New Orleans has been on with short term rentals for the better part of the last decade...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Will they get what they paid for?

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There was an update this week on the law firm contracted by Louisiana Republican leaders in the legislature to help them draw up their redi...
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