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Gov. Landry’s insurance bill is a really bad idea
By Quin Hillyer /
(April 20, print) It’s bad enough that Gov. Jeff Landry is hindering some fair-minded bills to rein in lawsuit abuse and, collaterally, help bring down insurance rates. What’s worse is […]
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How I would draft for the Saints: The list
By Quin Hillyer /
The list itself: I have an absurdly long explanation for all of this, which I will feature in a separate post below, but almost nobody will want to wade through […]
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Quin’s Saints Draft 2025 — background, rules, and initial reasoning
By Quin Hillyer /
Below is a far-too-lengthy article on how I would handle the draft this year if I were the New Orleans Saints. The point is absolutely not to predict what the […]
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Q Saints draft: Actual choices, trades, and reasons
By Quin Hillyer /
(continued from article above) Pick 1: The Saints are slated to pick at choice 9. Already gone, according to the board as I write this on 4/15, are Abdul Carter, […]
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Quin’s Saints “no trade” draft
By Quin Hillyer /
If I couldn’t trade, this is what I would come up with. This time, I kept it simple and used only the NFL Consensus Big Board, here — which means […]
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Quin’s PREDICTIONS (not wants) for 2025 Saints draft
By Quin Hillyer /
I don’t like these, but this seems like the sort of thing the Saints would do. 1-9 Mykel Williams, DE, Georgia Saints trade 2-40, 3-93, and 6-184 to KC […]
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New Orleans needs better budgeting process
By Quin Hillyer /
(Official Times-Picayune editorial, April 15) As New Orleans officials grapple with an April 17 meeting where they literally will argue about whether or not the city faces a budget crisis, […]
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Why Louisiana should cut its sales tax
By Quin Hillyer /
(April 13 print edition) In Louisiana, sales taxes are way too high. They need to come down. By most measures, Louisianans pay the highest sales taxes (state and local combined) in […]
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Speaker Johnson shouldn’t kiss Trump’s ring on tariffs
By Quin Hillyer /
(April 10) Louisiana’s citizens need U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to stand up for their interests and exert Congress’ constitutional power and duty over trade and tariffs, not […]
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‘One Door’ can vastly improve LA public aid and workforce
By Quin Hillyer /
(April 6) Perhaps the most important bill in Louisiana’s upcoming legislative session will be one almost everyone can agree on. Designed to make it easier for people to move from […]