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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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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Editorial: Fight against nitrogen executions should continue
(Official Times-Picayune/Advocate editoria;, March 23) The execution last week of Jessie Hoffman Jr. marked the end of a 15-year-long stretch in which the death penalty was on the books in […]
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Saints’ fans’ obsessions are the best
(March 20) “We really need a guard. Why haven’t we made a strong play for a starting left guard?!?” Note the “we.” This is how obsessive New Orleans Saints fans […]
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LA schools shouldn’t adopt ‘Gulf of America’ nonsense
(March 16 print edition, T-P) The Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico. The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education just wasted everybody’s time, […]
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Hideous nitrogen execution in LA moves closer
NOTE: After I wrote this column below, a Fifth Circuit appellate panel voted 2-1 to overturn the injunction described below, thus putting the execution back on schedule for Tuesday evening, […]
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Plan to exempt NIL earnings from taxes is so, so wrong
(Editorial by the Times-Picayune/Advocate, March 18) Perhaps the best response to a new tax-exemptionhttps://www.google.com/search?q=you+cannot+be+serious&oq=you+cannot+be+serious&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEAAYgATSAQkzMzI5ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBaAGxZlSyYX68QWgBsWZUsmF-g&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:340d0893,vid:t0hK1wyrrAU,st:0 idea in the Louisiana legislature is to quote a famous on-court explosion by tennis great John […]
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Avegno, Gautreau’s: Family restaurants are good Rx
(March 9) There’s absolutely nothing in the United States like the love affair Louisiana has with food and drink. When this newspaper last week published Ian McNulty’s wonderful review of […]
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Allen Toussaint’s childhood ‘Nights’
(Feb. 28 online, March 2 print edition, by Quin) So, you see, there’s this wonderful story involving the late New Orleans musical impresario Allen Toussaint. A Wall Street Journal review […]
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Radioactive gypsum: The right conservative response
(Column by Quin Hillyer, Feb. 23 in print) Even conservatives should recognize that the federal government, in certain circumstances, has an important role in basic scientific research. When millions and […]
