New Orleans Jury service is a citizen’s obligation in the United States. In the smaller City of New Orleans my fellow jurors and I are called to the jury pool every two years for a month of service in the criminal courts. The pool is broken in half each month so each juror draws between …
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Lawrence Powell, The Accidental City, and Walking the Bridge of the Enjoyment Culture
New Orleans Speaking in the Fair Grinds Coffeehouse Common Space in a book signing event organized by the Faubourg St. John branch of the Maple Street Bookstore, Lawrence Powell, Tulane University professor conceded that when he first agreed to write what he hoped would be 300-400 history of New Orleans in 2006 in the aftermath of …
Times-Picayune Goes Digital While Changes Prove Alienation from Community
New Orleans My hometown paper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, suddenly announced after being scooped by the New York Times, their radical plans to cease being a paper. They were less frank about their total desertion of New Orleans as their hometown, though their intentions are explicit. Inarguably times have changed for daily newspapers and the …