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Monday, August 07, 2023

Delicious "B" grade water

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Sounds lovely In the year since SouthWest Water Company acquired the local French Settlement Water Company , Delatte said complaints of poo...

Summer of Death

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 Not great Louisiana’s record-breaking summer has had fatal consequences. Sixteen people in the state died in June and July from heat-relat...

Summer of shit

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  Extended another month, basically . According to @swbneworleans sewage will continue to be dumped to the Mississippi River until at leas...
Friday, August 04, 2023

I've been around

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It was in mid-June that the odds-on candidate for Man of the Year 2023 emerged in New Orleans .  A popular chef reported missing in New Orl...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Susan Hutson will have plenty time to get more buy-in (or buy more people off) later

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Susan Hutson's float (seen from way across the street because I had COVID) rolls down St. Charles Avenue in the Legion of Mars parade in...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Surely, a winning slogan

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Put it on a dang billboard . @jefflandry says his vision is to make Louisiana more like Mississippi. #lagov — Jan Moller (@jmollerLBP) Ap...

Sounds like Fouad refused to rat on his friends

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  He's a real one. We knew that. Zeton has close connections to a number of local politicians, including Mayor LaToya Cantrell and seve...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Congratulations, Mayor Oliver Thomas

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I can't pay attention the Trump indictment. It just seems like so much boring celebrity gossip to me. Anyway, I missed this one a few da...
Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Island hopping

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The insidious thing about charterization is that it not only destroyed the union but it also set workers on a long struggle to claw it back ...
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Cycling insurance subsidies

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These little emergency patches to the failed market are going to keep happening. This one is about to happen twice, in fact.  Donelon said ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Ok but why?

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This can't just be explained away as a big, "Whoops! Turns out we didn't know how banks work!"  Although Dayen does at lea...

Billy is in trouble again

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Billy is always in trouble . The oversight of Louisiana's nine museums is plagued by lack of leadership, no coherent budget and low mora...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Commercial STRs in the queue now

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After a decade of dealing with this, we have reached the point now where City Councilmembers can no longer pretend they do not understand th...
Wednesday, March 08, 2023

How many cops does it take to go move five barricades?

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This turns out to be a very complicated question !  Part of the problem, according to officials, is that the 1971 ordinance that created the...
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

"Along with"

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 Seems like "along with" might be a bit of a stretch in this passage .  A development agreement for the former Six Flags amusement...
Monday, March 06, 2023

Of course right up until then it was fine

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Jeff and Shane have decided they are gonna put off the deal where they give each other bullshit gigs for a while.  Guidry is Landry’s top po...
Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Company town

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The highlight of yesterday's City Council hearing about the Cantrell Administration's stonewalling of union organizers came from JP...

Just pick a number

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So let's see. The recall campaign spent its final month loudly boasting that it had enough signatures to trigger an election.  They woul...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Keep Doing What You're Doing

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This is not just Dennis Allen's motto, or even Gayle Benson's apparent marching orders to her coach this offseason.  It's also a...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Borrowed time

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There's so much to say about the way the "trifecta" Democratic government elected in 2020 failed to move on critical matters ...
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