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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Ghost bus

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 Clearly this app is haunted. RTA launched a new app called Le Pass in August 2022. The app uses GPS technology to track buses. While it do...

All clear for profit taking

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 Election's over. No longer any reason to pretend anyone will stand in the way of Elevance.  Baton Rouge-based Blue Cross officials not...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Long termism

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 This is what Sam Bankman-Fried told people . Long-run savings Rodriguez said the company’s pitch to customers is that they will save money ...
Monday, October 16, 2023

MMT is real

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 Certainly enough money can be found whenever you like. The nation's top treasury official said the US does not have to pick and choos...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Breaking the city

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With the election already upon us, I just wanted to highlight this one aspect of your presumptive next Governor's campaign I don't t...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

I believe this was a hearing about establishing law and order

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I hear there were a  lot of fun public comments but I still was hoping I wouldn't have to watch the recording of this one. Unfortunately...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

What are "pro-choice proclivities"?

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  The entire premise of this Prospect article is wrong.    Since Dobbs , voters in Republican Kansas, Ohio, and Montana have rejected far-r...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

It's afraid

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 The salt water wedge is backing away .  The Mississippi River saltwater wedge threatening New Orleans-area water supplies has retreated m...
Sunday, October 08, 2023

It flows downhill

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This new S&WB substation has gone on quite a journey. First, Entergy was going to pay for it outright. We thought that sounded suspiciou...
Saturday, October 07, 2023

The boats must flow

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There are priorities here that simply will not be questioned.  The matter of whether or not anybody can live in the city takes a very far ba...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Very accurate leaning. The most accurate leaning. More and more people are saying this

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  It turns out we've got plenty time left .  A new forecast for saltwater intrusion moving up the Mississippi River has surprisingly b...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

In the park? On the park? Next to the park?

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There's an update this morning on a plan to finally build a new City Hall. This time they're aiming to put it in what many of us h...

Congratulations

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Congrats to the various landlords and contractors and politicians responsible for the deadly collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel construction si...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Tick Tock (again)

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Jason Williams' office is running out of time to bring indictments in the Hard Rock hotel collapse. It's been hard to know which par...

Tick tock

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For those of us reaching a certain age, the idea of bending all of reality to run on Sewerage and Water Board time does sound nice.  But I d...
Friday, September 29, 2023

What do people need? What should people do?

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In one regard, we're getting a lot of information about the salt water. We know roughly when it will get to each intake. We know it wil...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Everybody gets a charter

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It's very difficult for me to imagine anything good coming out of a structure and process set up like thi s.  Mayor LaToya Cantrell sig...

Emergency pipeline

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Don't panic. It turns out the thing we kept saying wouldn't be a problem is a bigger problem than we thought. But it's okay. We...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Who appoint-a da chief?

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On Friday, Mayor Cantrell (apparently back from France) swore in t he person she expects to become the next  "permanent" (at leas...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Okay well what is the plan, though?

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We get lots of quotes to the effect that "local officials are preparing for impacts" from the salt water .  Not a lot of informati...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Age of cruelty

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Picking up a thought we left off on a few weeks ago , about the closing off of political possibilities evidenced by the permanent intransige...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Nobody wants to administrate anymore

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One thing that's become clear over the course of the last decade is that the absolute worst thing you can do for this generation of ...
Saturday, September 09, 2023

Age of quackery

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 This is just mainstream politics now .   “There’s no question that the anti-vax movement is a larger entity now. It’s better funded, it’s ...
Friday, September 08, 2023

The little lords are mad now

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See, this is what we were getting at with this .  I don't really know what any of these people are like. But the general notion is this....

Folding up the con-profits

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One of the interesting things about the recession* we're headed into is the specific way the non-profit sector is going to implode .  Ea...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Love the smell of naptha in the morning

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I mean, you'd better get used it.  Or at least you should probably always assume it's there one way or the other. Nobody's going...
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