The shot heard round the world, 250 years later
(April 19, 2025) It would be a tragedy if we discover that the shot heard round the world no longer echoes. Two hundred and fifty years ago today [last Saturday], after […]
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Gov. Landry’s insurance bill is a really bad idea
(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
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
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
(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
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
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
(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
(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
(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 […]
