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Video Series: Wade Discusses Battle for the 9th Ward

Charter Schools “Experiment” Still at Odds with Law and Democracy

 New Orleans   To the degree that many so-called educational “reformers” like to tout New Orleans and the post-Katrina usurpation of much of the school system through federal money bribes and legislative do-overs as a model, it is worth seeing how the tendency to no accountability and educational autocracy continues unabated.

The original executive orders that seized [...]

Short Takes on the 1% and Other Weirdness in the Small World

New Orleans    As we fight to regain population in the wake of Katrina and so many other demographic struggles over the last half-century, New Orleans in the NBA/NFL world is a “small market city,” which means we often find that we are living in a very small world.

I thought of this recently while hanging around [...]

Grease Wars!

New Orleans   Yikes – every once in a while, we find out we are out there on our own in a wild world where the protection provided for fools and little children is sadly lacking.  This summer after 18 months of negotiation, we acquired through donation and loans a fantastic mobile biodiesel rig on an 8 [...]

Props to Barnes & Nobel’s Leo Riggio from New Orleans!

New Orleans Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong, and in this case, I’m glad to not only say it, but offer some heartfelt praise to Leo Riggio of Barnes & Noble and family for having done the right thing for the right reasons in the right way for the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans [...]

The Coming Campaigns in Post-Disaster Katrina Clawbacks

New Orleans At the Fair Grinds Coffeehouse book launch for The Battle for the Ninth Ward, we asked a number of activists gathered on the second floor to share their perspectives and experiences.  It was a rich and sometimes painful reminder of how much Katrina is still a daily experience in New Orleans six years [...]