Library Chronicles

  The pig didn't do anything that needs pardoning .  BATON ROUGE, La. — A baby pig that was rescued after being tossed like a football...

The median individual income in New Orleans is about $27,000 .   That almost gets you somewhere to live comfortably... but not quite .  NEW...

Get used to this sort of thing under Governor Landry.  The City of New Orleans and its people can consider themselves an occupied territory,...

Decades of trying to push the bullshit line that we "create jobs" by giving away tax breaks to wealthy people and corporations. An...

That thing where you definitely expect conditions to improve " within the next 6 months " or so and then keep pushing that ahead a...

It's difficult to know where, in New Orleans, Freddie King even wants people to be able to afford their rent.  We already know he doesn...

Chicago is finally ditching ShotSpotter . (Although, you might notice here that Johnson is dragging his feet a bit.) Mayor Brandon Johnson a...

Mardi Gras is over.* Time to start facing up to the realities of 2024, most of which will be bad.  Get used to it.  Here they come .  Gov. J...

At first they didn't think they'd have to.  Technically the legislature doesn't have direct authority over whether or not the sa...

We really thought Jeff Landry would have been in jail by this point in his career. But we also thought the same of Billy Nungesser and look ...

As we've already noted, the sale of Blue Cross Louisiana to a notorious for-profit corporation  is a terrible deal. Even your also noto...

Every politician's dream everywhere is to hold the trappings of office; the social recognition, the little privileges, the bankable resu...

Appreciate the legislators asking very good questions about all of this. But, at the end of the day, it will be Tim Temple and, to a lesser ...

Back in March of last year, we thought this NOLA.com "Talking Business" interview with Entergy New Orleans CEO Deanna Rodriguez wo...

Why does one city need to dedicate public money and tax privileges to t wo different golf arcades three miles apart from one another ? Well,...

It's been over a decade.That's a whole lot of holding out hope that our political leadership plans to do something about the exploit...

Last summer a judge ruled against the city council in a lawsuit against the mayor's office in pursuit of greater oversight of how the ci...

Blake Corley is quoted at the top of this article expressing his shock and disappointment at the arrest of the grifters for whom he had bee...

It's been a while since we did a round-up of our city's most "iconic" doomed redevelopment projects.  In what's now a ...

 You'll never keep this city's permanent wealth class down .  The lead developer of the Hard Rock Hotel, which collapsed while under...

I guess we should have known the increasing frequency of system failures and boil orders would inevitably lead to S&WB just giving up ev...

We're back. We're still doing the thing s. Large fire visible in Algiers coming over the Woodland Bridge. Looks to be an Entergy S...

The building we've come to know in recent years as "DXC Tower" has been sold .  Two Monroe businessmen and real estate inves...

I think I said this around this time last year, but I really have got to get back to posting here (or writing longer form in some other way)...

This is a bit from a recent Richard Campanella article about the history of Duncan Plaza. Supposedly everything is in line to build the new...

Louisiana's next Insurance Commissioner is preparing to ascend to that office next year without having had to campaign for it.  No one r...