AG Landry Miscalculates African American Support
By Jeff Thomas New Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff Landry, is out of control. Drunk with power and prestige and legitimacy, Landry seems hellbent on embedding right wing ideology into state…
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By Jeff Thomas New Louisiana Attorney General, Jeff Landry, is out of control. Drunk with power and prestige and legitimacy, Landry seems hellbent on embedding right wing ideology into state…
by Kara Johnson The truth about bitters is a long and sorted “tail”. Originally used for its healing powers, bitters were elixars made by so-called physicians to cure common ailments…
By Kenneth Cooper Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ public schools were run by a bureaucracy accused of enriching itself at the expense of students. After Hurricane Katrina, a number of…
by Jeff Thomas Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is a Tea Party Conservative. His surprising election to that post was bolstered by unexpected support from African Americans in NOLA and…
By Jeff Thomas The upcoming Donald Trump presidency marks the beginning of a transition for America. The changes will come fast and with a suddenness that may shock many Americans. …
REFORMATION, CHANGE AND PROGRESS May 16, 2016 Philip J White Retired New Orleans Public School Educator Last week was very interesting in the New Orleans educational experiment movement. …
By Philip White As this country is gratefully approaching the end of the 2016 presidential campaign, a national down ballot issue rages on – the battle for control of k-12…
By Philip White Back in the day, we all remember the spoiled, whinny little rich kid in the neighborhood who owned all the balls. Whenever things didn’t go his way…
By Kenneth Cooper Maybe the mayor should try another approach. Some sort of scare tactic. Approve the firefighters’ millage or sit back while some of them die waiting on…
By Kenneth Cooper The Louisiana state budget is an abstraction, a series of dollar signs and digits existing on a computer screen or piece of paper. Taken as a whole,…