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 […]
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Editorial: Warnings on making flotsam of gypsum
(Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 20) Significant public concern should attend the news that state regulators are allowing Mosaic Fertilizer in St. James Parish to expand its already-massive mound of slightly radioactive […]
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Armstrong, Bechet, and Cake-Walking: 100-year anniversary
(February 8) To all you wonderful Super Bowl visitors, a word to the wise: If you leave this city with memories only of football and booze, without a fuller appreciation of […]
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‘Back to Basics’ helps Louisiana’s education system
(Official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune, Feb. 5) The hundreds of thousands of Super Bowl visitors to Louisiana already know they are coming to a cultural and entertainment mecca, but they […]
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When home is Louisiana, yes, you can return
(Feb. 1) Early 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote, “You can’t go home again.” Dorothy Gale, in “The Wizard of Oz,” though, said, “There’s no place like home.” Wolfe was wrong and […]
