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Friday, October 31, 2025

The cage is closed but monkey bars are open*

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Didn't want Halloween to pass this year without acknowledging the latest episode in the ongoing saga of Tulane's rage monkeys of ter...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Serpas Signal

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 Very comforting Last week, Gov. Jeff Landry formally requested that the president send 1,000 troops to Louisiana. ...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Almost harvest time

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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...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

The Saltwater Decade

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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...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

The plutonomy is permanent

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Here's David Dayen on the "K shaped economy."   It's a phenomenon that, as he points out in the article, has been understo...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

"Debate me bro"

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

The perception

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Really nice to know the most important people in the city have their priorities straight.  What comes first is the "perception" th...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Werlein's Chicken Shack

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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...

"Qualified"

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I wonder what what Pierre Villere is getting at here, specifically .   A dozen of Moreno’s donors have contributed $12,000, the maximum allo...
Friday, September 12, 2025

We need to start asking how

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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...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

The decade of magical thinking

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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...
Friday, September 05, 2025

Boom times for Entergy

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The greatest "economic pipeline. " More than 18 months after Louisiana officials began wooing executives from Meta to the state,...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

It will always be Katrina times

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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...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Is this good?

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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...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Nobody promoting a police panopticon deserves to hold public office in your city

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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 ...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Ban Mayors 2025: Chapter 2 Qualifying and Disqualifying

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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...
Friday, July 11, 2025

What is, "ethics plagued," really?

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