New Orleans My hometown paper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, suddenly announced after being scooped by the New York Times, their radical plans to cease being a paper. They were less frank about their total desertion of New Orleans as their hometown, though their intentions are explicit. Inarguably times have changed for daily newspapers and the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Shell-Shocked, Black Youth, Guns, Death, Police, and Juries in New Orleans
New Orleans Follow me on where I’m going with this. In the smaller-footprint, post-Katrina New Orleans, I do my citizen’s duty and am part of the jury pool every two years, and this May is my month to report for service. Yesterday in the pool as part of voir dire, I was asked, along with …
Facebook Whining that the Fix Was Not In
New Orleans Yes, I use Facebook, and as a tool for work and communication, I have found Facebook to have value. Ease of use and access, make it a useful means for people to slip a note over the electronic transom, find you, and move forward. Facebook doesn’t make revolutions, change the world, or anything …