Tabasco’s home island is a Louisiana pleasure dome
(Sept. 11) Tabasco sauce is apparently hot stuff for the U.S. armed forces, and Tabasco’s home site in Louisiana is a very cool place to visit. The sauce’s ubiquity in military […]
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Bard has a new award for a heroine against hate
(Sept. 12) Ten years ago today, the most courageous lady I’ve ever known in politics, Beth Rickey, died alone and broke, 1,000 miles from her Lafayette, La., home. This week, 1,300 […]
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Forgiving Bama Gov. Ivey’s blackface
(Aug. 31) It is reasonable to criticize Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey for doing a skit in blackface in college. It’s also reasonable, given that this happened half a century ago, to […]
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Brilliant centrist Artur Davis merits a public-policy home
(Aug. 29) One of the more interesting political careers in recent decades probably ended this week, but electoral defeat shouldn’t preclude many years more of public policy work for former Congressman […]
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Save Mobile’s Botanical Gardens! Now!
Please see below, which is pasted from the letter sent out by the Gardens. This must not stand. I hereby pledge $200 as a donation to the Gardens, and urge […]
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Fifty years ago, Camille rocked our worlds
For the rest of the country, the eventful summer of 1969 was not a Bryan Adams song, but it was the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, Chappaquiddick and the […]
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A Roby-Hurd team could trump Trump in Iowa
[Aug. 2] In the past 10 days, two of the best young Republicans in Congress have announced they won’t seek reelection in 2020. Rather than retire from politics, though, Martha Roby […]
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Congress, Alabama lose a good one as Martha Roby retires
MOBILE, ALABAMA, JULY 26 – At a time when thoughtful, non-robotic representation already is too rare on Capitol Hill, it is particularly distressing to learn today that Rep. Martha Roby […]
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Mad Jones at Octavia Books, New Orleans, July 23
AT OCTAVIA BOOKS! To all in New Orleans or vicinity, I am very excited to announced that Octavia Books is hosting me at 6 p.m. on July 23 for a […]
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Hacks, Louisiana Gov race, and N.O. floods
Three Examiner pieces by Quin (links embedded in the headlines); National GOP ups ante in LA Gov. race (July 9): Because only three states have gubernatorial elections in 2019, even […]
