Library Chronicles

  The best kind of protest, as everyone knows. House Bill 127 , sponsored by Rep. Mike Bayham, R-Chalmette, received final House concurren...

Another one of those things where there isn't much to say. They're basically making every form of organized political dissent a majo...

I still don't know if the constitutional convention is happening for real.  But those of you who wrote in, "Make the state subsidiz...

It's an appointed position, apparently Landry's office said Wednesday that the details and title of the role were still being worked...

All one has to do is refer to any point in the past when Mayor Cantrell's administration acted to expand the intrusive police surveilla...

  They're messing with you .  GOP donors Lane Grigsby and Boysie Bollinger aren't concerned about the restrictions placed on the con...

They just passed new laws that say insurance companies don't actually have to, you know, provide insurance .  Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesda...

Not really sure why anyone is wasting their time and energy under the delusion that the reactionaries in the legislature can be stopped or e...

 I'd call the police but it looks like they are in on it. The NOPD has lobbied for new space for years, and Kirkpatrick has made it a ...

Good news! Sewerage and Water Board is about to fix your billing problems . You know, the problem everyone is having where there bill is too...

The other day I saw this sign on the Napoleon Ave neutral ground advertising an upcoming production of the New Orleans Ballet. For a second,...

Nothing is happening and no one is getting paid .  More than six months after a new development team was brought in to help jumpstart the s...

Probably you devoted at least a little bit of your time on Monday to experiencing the solar eclipse. Maybe you scored a pair of free glasses...

Over a decade of struggle to protect what's left of New Orleans's neighborhoods from having the life sucked out of them by Airbnb; a...

It felt like we measured out the 2010s in the time spent between the several boil orders.  So much so, that by the end of the decade, it sto...

 Everything they do seems bad. Throw this on the pile as well .  Cloud’s Senate Bill 482 goes the furthest of those bills by gutting from ...

The state is rushing headlong into carbon capture despite many remaining questions as to the efficacy and safety of the process. It definite...

A Knights of Chaos float from this year's Carnival depicts Sewerage and Water Board Director Ghassan Korban (along with his salary) One ...

Comedy is finally legal again at the Louisiana Legislature. Every stupid joke of an idea they've had batted away in the past is back. A...

The Landry "task force" sounds like they want the state to take over the SWB and then turn it over to a private operator . Sort of...

This is a really nice Poynter article today about Karen Gadbois. The implication is that she's (maybe... possibly.. soon.. eventually) ...

I don't really know what else we're supposed to say about the legislative session.  Every week is just gonna be a new load of very b...

The Landry steamroller is just getting warmed up. There's so much coming so fast that it is a struggle to get a bead on what specific hi...

First of all we'd like to thank NOPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick for choosing to drop this Weed Rats meme on us just after Mardi Gras.  It m...