New Orleans There is a pretty fair dose of embarrassment that comes from just plain living in Louisiana. Poverty, inequality, education, health, welfare, and football teams are regularly at the top of every list, though most of these are bad lists to be on and require lots of apologizing. Even trying to catch a break …
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Jindal “No Go!”
New Orleans It’s not often that almost everyone agrees on something throughout the land and perhaps the globe, but Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal, formerly a Republican presidential hopeful, has truly succeeded in bringing everyone together. He did so with his crazy, controversial remarks to a conservative group in London named after former Senator Henry Jackson …
State Initiatives Move the Needle on Key Issues in USA Elections
New Orleans Obvious disclosure: I’m a huge proponent of the strategic and tactical value of local and statewide initiative on our issues to build organizational power and actually win campaign results. This is obvious given the number of living wage, lifeline utility, sales tax on food & medicine, generic drug, minimum wage increase, and single …
Doonesbury Explains Dinosaur Extinction for Louisianans
New Orleans I don’t read the comics or the funny papers. No big thing, just one of those things where you make a personal decision about time and choose the box scores rather than the talking balloons. But science and politics are still important and when facts confront the popularity and prejudice of people, it’s …
Landing from the Moon into America
New Orleans After four days with no power, which of course means no internet, erratic to infrequent newspaper delivery, and it turns out no working radio in the house and only weather and disaster news on the truck radio, it is somewhat wild to be thrust from the light of the full moon into modern day …