Marble Falls Every once in a while, someone do you a favor and brings together a mass of cuts and bruises to really show you where all the fatal wounds are. Bob Marshall, an erstwhile reporter, sometime columnist, and all around environmentalist based in New Orleans, did that recently in the Times-Picayune by …
Category: Louisiana
Port Site Fights are Environmental
New Orleans No one should ever forget that the most stable and sustainable driver of the New Orleans economy is neither tourism nor conventions, but rests in no small measure on the Mississippi River as a port city. Barges of grain and other goods coming down, ships filled with coffee and everything else …
Jailbreak is Final Straw for an Embattled Sheriff
Pearl River Living in New Orleans, we become accustomed to being in the news. People like our food, music, Mardi Gras, and festivals for just kicks or business conventions, so the headlines follow. Somebody wants to report on climate change, New Orleans will be front and center. We get used to all that, and …