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 […]
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Fifty years exactly since greatest golf tourney EVER
(This is a special reminiscence, available nowhere but here at QuinHillyer.com. The entire piece is below.) The Masters Championship fifty years ago this week may have been, all things considered, […]
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‘One Door’ can vastly improve LA public aid and workforce
(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 […]
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Three-way conversation on the failure of LA’s amendments
(This was a three-way conversation among columnists Quin Hillyer, Stephanie Grace, and Will Sutton, about why voters rejected all four constitutional amendments on the ballot last week. Print publication was […]
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New Orleans should support Musicians Clinic
(April 1, but NOT an April Fool’s story) Sometimes when bad news is leavened by good news, the tendency is to shrug, say “all’s well,” and move on. Louisianans should […]
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EDITORIAL: How to salvage the good parts of LA’s Amendment Two
(Official editorial of the Times-Picayune/Advocate, April 6, 2025) The defeat of Amendment 2 on the statewide ballot last month should not mean the end for some individual proposals within the amendment. […]
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NORD needs to keep raising its game
(March 30) So: This was going to be an easy column. Namely: The New Orleans Recreation Development Commission appears dangerously negligent, but a major community coalition is determined, against all […]
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Landry’s levee board power play should fail
(March 26) State legislators should make clear to Gov. Jeff Landry and his unofficial adviser Shane Guidry that changes to the basic organizational set-up of New Orleans area levee boards […]
