New Orleans Usually when the National Rifle Association, better known as the NRA, is in the news, it’s bad news for the rest of us. Usually it means that they are once again painting themselves and a few of their toadying politicians in a corner while they defend the indefensible, like standing in the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Second Acts are Everywhere in America – Hello, Tigers!
New Orleans I’m not a fan of golf. Very little about the game has every appealed to me, partially for class reasons. As a kid, every blue moon we would make a couple of bucks retrieving balls in the watery ponds at the City Park course for a quarter a ball. I once caddied …
Reining in Electric Coops, as They Buck and Whine
New Orleans The problem with celebrating our victories is that often we need to do so pretty quickly before the forces of reaction overrun us again. Hopefully, this won’t be the situation in a recent critical breakthrough in the Public Service Commission regulation of rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana, but it’s worth concern. A …