New Orleans Just back in town, we caught a lucky break with a showing of Beasts of the Southern Wild in a corporate cineplex in suburban New Orleans which featured a question/answer period with director and co-writer Benh Zeitlin and one of the principal actors and a local baker, Dwight Henry. This young filmmaker was impressive, …
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The Money Contradictions of Roemer and Americans Elect
New Orleans Buddy Roemer was a confusing and contradictory Louisiana politician as a one-term governor of the state several decades ago as he jumped from party to party and issue to issue. He just didn’t seem comfortable or made for the job, but in the strange way of public life, he has spent the last year …
Regulations, Contractors, and the Gulf Oil Spill
New Orleans The wave of news comments was provoked by the release of an almost 400 page report by the National Oil Spill Commission in Washington head by former Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly during Republican administrations. In the inimitable words of Aaron Viles of Gulf …