Flexibility for Alabama’s Budget
Alabama faces a budget gap of $265 million. Not good, but not awful, Perhaps manageable, if managerial/legislative flexibility were available. Alas, right now it’s not available. But it should be. […]
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White House lessons from Louisiana and Alabama
Follow the links: How Bobby Jindal might win the White House (even though I advised him not to try). How a Romney-Bush battle might mirror an Alabama joust earlier this […]
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Update on Christopher Thomas Scholarship
A few weeks ago, I wrote of the amazingly impressive young man, Christopher Thomas, a student leader at the University of South Alabama who suddenly died of natural causes — […]
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My Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot
The Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, will find out Tuesday who its newest inductees will be. There’s no time now for a full and thorough discussion of who should […]
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New Year, Continuing Stories, New Approach
Happy New Year! Within two weeks, I hope to announce a new, much more regular system of posts here at Quinhillyer.com — interesting, informative, entertaining. In the meantime, here’s catching […]
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Big Been: What’s Passed Must Remain Past
So, yet again, it comes down to this: The Saints versus the Falcons, with the playoffs in the balance. For New Orleans fans with long memories, the contest makes for […]
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Landrieu’s last Lap? A cornucopia of coverage….
In the past month I’ve published a number of pieces, big and small, on the runoff in the Louisiana Senate race. The most comprehensive was here, in a 1,600-word feature […]
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In Memory of Christopher Thomas, Please Donate
Christopher Thomas, who died of respiratory failure last spring, was one of the most impressive young men I’ve met in a long, long time. He was president of the College […]
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Saints shouldn’t get cocky
Even though I predicted the Saints win yesterday, and even predicted Nick Toon’s first-ever NFL touchdown, I wasn’t anywhere near as impressed with the Saints’ performance as the T-P writers […]
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Saints will defeat Steelers
I’m a chronic complainer about the Saints, and of course I join most New Orleanians in finding very, very little to like about the Saints’ performance this year, from general […]
