The Superdome turns 50
(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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From jazz funerals to Carville: Jason Berry has the stories
(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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Lutheran youth, 20,000 strong, do good in New Orleans
(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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FINS with GUMBO, with a NEST: Saving young people
(July 20) Someone can be “tough on crime” and at the same time, without logical contradiction, also want to do preventive work addressing crime’s “root causes.” Social work and prosecutorial […]
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This ‘murderer’ may be innocent, and deserves bail
(July 17) It is almost impossible to think of a punishment too severe for someone who — I hate to even write these words — raped and murdered a two-year-old. On the other […]
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Why tennis’ Arthur Ashe gives a lesson for NORD
(July 13) So, what does Wimbledon tennis have to do with a New Orleans inspector general’s critical report about the New Orleans Recreation and Development Commission and its supporting foundation? […]
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The Fourth of July supersedes bad politics
(July 4) Independence Day is such a favorite holiday of mine that when this nation had its bicentennial celebration in 1976, I told my father I wanted to live to 112 […]
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No, Don Henley: News isn’t always ‘dirty laundry’
(June 26 column by Quin) A number of recent examples show that despite what the cynics say, the expression “good news” isn’t an oxymoron. You’ve all probably heard the old saying […]
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Groups promoting truly civil society deserve support
(June 19) Where, pray tell, is common ground? Almost everybody agrees that American politics, which always have been rambunctious, have devolved into such toxicity that civil conversations appear impossible. Every reasonable person […]
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On Louisiana’s quintessential cultural collage
(May 18, print edition, T-P) Apologies if this column seems like a written version of a collage, but please give it a chance to cohere. When earlier this spring I wrote […]
