New Orleans Years ago New Orleans and many parts of Louisiana were referred to by various observers as “banana republics,” meaning corrupt empires run by demagogues, contemptuous of their citizens and normal democratic process. Some would argue those were just the days of Huey Long, Leander Perez, and their ilk, bigger and badder than life. …
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The Arrogance of Newspaper Monopolies
New Orleans Here comes another report from guinea pig land. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become ground zero for some bizarre and sometimes unfortunate social experiments, like the fact that we are the largest charter school laboratory in the country. Just because we have proven we are resilient does not mean …
Stiffing Tenants as a Landlord Business Model
New Orleans Active ACORN campaigns in Canada, Scotland, and Italy focusing on tenant rights and landlord abuses, found me reading in detail a rare report in the New Orleans Times-Picayune about tenant rights, or really the lack of them, in Louisiana and most other states in the USA. The Uniform Landlord and Tenant Act in …