New Orleans The other day, sitting on a dock on an inlet in Stinson Beach that joins the Pacific Ocean, I was asked an interesting question by a friend and comrade who follows politics on hyper speed and at mine shaft depth. He asked me which state was worse now, Arkansas or Louisiana? By …
Category: Louisiana
A Union’s Wake and Resistance
Pearl River I hardly remembered talking to Jesse Chanin years ago, back in the pre-Covid times, about the role of the teachers’ union, UTNO, the United Teachers of New Orleans, in the labor movement and the community. Hearing from her that all of her work had finally come to fruition in a book, Building …
Voting with Your Feet Also Determines Elections
Manchester Attorney General Jeff Landry in Louisiana is a hard right culture warrior and Republican provocateur. Yet, for the first time in a dozen years, he emerged as the winner with a majority of the vote in the so-called “jungle” primary, where candidates of all parties contend for a place in the general election. …