New Orleans This New Orleans high school on elegant Esplanade Avenue is called “John Mac,” short for John McDonogh High School. This was my “district” high school as a teenager in New Orleans. The imposing building isn’t two miles from Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, City Park, and Bayou St. John. But, somehow in the televised …
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Grading the 3-Day a Week New Orleans Newspaper Experiment
New Orleans Three months have now passed since the New Orleans Times-Picayune made national news with its shocking announcement that they would no longer publish a daily paper, but would put out a print edition only three days per week (Wednesday, Friday, & Sunday), and count on their web page for survival. Shortly thereafter the …
Mayor’s Failure on Community Benefit Agreement May Prove His Corruption
New Orleans Big news in New Orleans, a city that decidedly does NOT specialize in irony, surrounds the Mayor of the Katrina years, C. Ray Nagin and whether or not in addition to being incompetent, which is widely acknowledged, he was also corrupt. The irony comes into play because speculation in the U.S. Attorney’s office, fully …