Library Chronicles

Laura Rodrigue somehow got someone to earmark funds in a bill for UNO facilities upgrades for a "youth sports program" of some so...

Jack Rizutto trying to pull a classic bust-out on the Krewe of Oshun, apparently. The Krewe of Oshun parade is the very first float proces...

It's been a long time since Bobby Jindal promised he was going to deliver the most ethicsy "dragonslaying" regime in the histo...

Lost in all the back and forth negotiations and legal maneuvering   between the New Orleans Public School District and the City over finance...

Is that what they've been doing? This year, Louisiana state legislators could consider bills that could bring tighter regulation and enf...

Jeff Landry took another step today toward throwing the state's biggest coastal restoration project into the trash. Gov. Jeff Landry...

The Louisiana Democratic Party is constitutionally incapable of simply taking the win against Jeff Landry's constitutional amendments. T...

David Dayen writes here that the tariffs are really sanctions, in once sense against the entire rest of the world, but most critically agai...

Does Troy Carter know what that is?  Doesn't seem like it .  Attendees told Carter that they felt helpless, confused and worried about ...

The really insidious thing about the DOGE phenomenon, wherein a team of hooligans under the direction of a hostile plutocrat wreak havoc on ...

The villains are pretty much monologing their evil plans here .  Maybe someone will hear it?  Would that matter?  An internal Social Securi...

It's getting more difficult to hide the truth about this place .   New Orleans and its suburbs have lost population at a faster rate tha...

  We live under a terror regime .  The Ali family had been on ICE’s radar, facing removal, for some time. They had a pending application fo...

 Every day I die a little bit As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pr...

There are a lot of reasons why elected office holders behave the way they do. But one fundamental razor for understanding them I find useful...

A stressful Carnival season, the collapse of the Republic, and a few bits of personal news have gotten us behind schedule in our endeavors t...

  I'm sure it was just like this .  Hammond Police said they pulled over a vehicle on the evening of Feb. 10 near Magazine and Apple S...

 Pass it on .  The Public Service Commission on Wednesday removed commissioner Davante Lewis as its vice chairman after he called Gov. Jeff ...

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2025 There are four constitutional am...

One thing I think this article does a good job of doing is providing the context for understanding the AI takeover of government. Rather tha...

 Always a scam proposition.  It's been modernized .  In an essay dated April 2022, Yarvin updated RAGE to something he described as a “...

It says something that, in a moment of crisis like this one, when people are trying to figure out if they have to march or if they have to s...

The only thing worse than what Elon is doing to the federal government right now are his pathetic emulators sprinkled across the states... i...

 what's happening now The former executive did point to a meaningful difference between X and DOGE, however: The government is big and ...

 Ghassan Korban is talking about his legacy today .   In May, Korban will leave behind an agency that is still challenged but in better con...

I've got my attention divided in several directions at the moment. Some personal dealings, also the city is getting ready to experience ...

Seems bad The U.S. Department of Justice issued a report Thursday evening finding that Louisiana State Police employs practices that viola...

This isn't really a post in that there are more notes to share about both of these figures which we'll get to later. But we really n...