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Amtrak between Mobile and NOLA is a good, fun ride
By Quin Hillyer /
(Aug. 21) The Amtrak Mardi Gras Service is a big winner. The train route between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, is a winner for Amtrak, a winner for New Orleans, a winner […]
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Cliff Smith: Cassidy should learn from… LBJ
By Quin Hillyer /
(Guest column by Cliff Smith, the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Aug. 22) In June, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, announced he was retiring after opposing President Donald Trump on the One Big, […]
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Matt K. Lewis: Why Democrats turn off young male voters
By Quin Hillyer /
(Column by Matt K. Lewis originally in L.A. Times) If you’re still looking for someone to blame for Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection, don’t just look at the usual suspects — the […]
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Editorial: Fund the Mississippi River study, NOW!
By Quin Hillyer /
(Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Aug. 17) Those of a certain age will remember the old Fram Oil Filter commercial: You can pay me now ($4 for a filter), or you can […]
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Wrong Beauregard, wrong place
By Quin Hillyer /
(August 17) To change the names of places or to remove historic statues or memorials is almost invariably an enterprise fraught with controversy. Some of us take more neutral, case-by-case approaches […]
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George Will: Trump bowed low to Putin
By Quin Hillyer /
(Column by George Will, Aug. 18) As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated. The former KGB agent currently indicted for war crimes […]
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The Declaration’s ideals should be taught enthusiastically
By Quin Hillyer /
(Aug. 10) Are you gearing up for next summer’s semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of our nation’s birth? Louisiana Jay Lapeyre rightly says you should be. So, too, especially, should […]
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The Superdome turns 50
By Quin Hillyer /
(Official editorial at the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Aug. 10) The SuperDoom. The StuporDome. Those were among the monikers that critics used for the Louisiana Superdome early on. Amid all the well-deserved plaudits for the […]
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From jazz funerals to Carville: Jason Berry has the stories
By Quin Hillyer /
(Aug. 7) To ask what jazz funerals have in common with famed political consultant James Carville sounds like the set-up for some mordant witticism, but it’s not. This very month the […]
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LA gives money to Saudi golf, but not for safe bridges
By Quin Hillyer /
(July 31) The state of Louisiana should not be spending $7 million to bring a LIV Golf tournament to New Orleans. And the state Legislature should not have declined to […]