Is New Orleans a Safe Place to Call Home?
By Jeff Thomas What’s big and yellow, has four wheels and sleeps 6-10 people? A Sewerage and Water Board truck. This old joke was emblematic of the perceived waste…
The Failure of Mitch Landrieu
By Jeff Thomas A case study of the failure of the Mitch Landrieu administration At the end of his administration Ray Nagin got indicted and convicted of fraud. While Nagin…
Why You Can’t Be Without Your Phone
Martin Graff Ph.D. How attached are you to your phone? “I regularly check my phone even if it does not ring.” “My phone is within easy reach at night.”…
How do we determine our successes and failures?
Richard B. Joelson DSW, LCSW Locus of Control There is a concept in the psychological literature known as locus of control that is unfamiliar to most people, even though,…