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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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 […]
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(Aug. 3 print edition) Good news: Louisiana is better situated than almost every other state to implement new work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps. Still, at an individual level, […]
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(A version of this ran as an official Advocate/Times-Picayune editorial, July 27) As this newspaper long has supported the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, we lament the news that the painstakingly planned coastal-restoration […]
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(July 24 print edition) When about 19,000 Lutheran high schoolers and some 1,000 adult mentors descend on New Orleans for five days, the economic impact alone is impressive: 38,000 room […]
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(July 27) “If you’re a conservative columnist, why do you often criticize conservative Republican politicians?” Six months back into full-time writing for this newspaper, I frequently hear this question. Or close […]
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