Library Chronicles

Didn't want Halloween to pass this year without acknowledging the latest episode in the ongoing saga of Tulane's rage monkeys of ter...

 Very comforting Last week, Gov. Jeff Landry formally requested that the president send 1,000 troops to Louisiana. ...

We are in the stage of the business cycle where the ruling class can either (A) take the massive piles of capital that have accumulated at t...

On the bright side, we're all cooking the most lovely pasta these day s.  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it will buil...

Here's David Dayen on the "K shaped economy."   It's a phenomenon that, as he points out in the article, has been understo...

The key here is we're talking about the same problem we run into with "both sides" journalism, which, I think is something peo...

Really nice to know the most important people in the city have their priorities straight.  What comes first is the "perception" th...

Now we know why the Palace Cafe closed down in an acrimonious dispute over the building. Apparently, there was a different buyer on the hori...

I wonder what what Pierre Villere is getting at here, specifically .   A dozen of Moreno’s donors have contributed $12,000, the maximum allo...

All of the candidates agree. We need more affordable housing.  They don't seem to agree on how much .  At forums, campaign events, and i...

Entergy's CEO says they're not quite gonna make their 2030 climate goals after all. Dangit. I know they were always taking that real...

The greatest "economic pipeline. " More than 18 months after Louisiana officials began wooing executives from Meta to the state,...

Here is a photo I took five days ago.   If you look closely at the left (viewer's left) of the door you probably can make out the sti...

Is it good that the one area of your economy where investment isn't falling off is the highly speculative bullshit area ?  I think you c...

I really wish people would stop talking so much about what Trump does every day and focus on the things their local elected leaders do that ...

Lovely late summer in New Orleans when the crepe myrtles are full and the candidate signage is in bloom.  On a recent late July Thursday, Ne...

We appreciate Matt McBride and The Lens for reporting on the Mayor's last minute withdrawal of Kimberly Thomas's nomination to a ne...