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…
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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…
By Jeff Thomas Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has had two mayors. One is in jail, the other is shivers every time it rains. Each failed dramatically to deliver on…
Sheriff Insists This is all Just One Harry Lee Sized Coincidence By Jeff Thomas Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand’s sudden and shocking resignation from office was the talk of the…
We Will Need to Go to War in NOLA By Jeff Thomas Politicians must make difficult decisions, sometimes funding necessary projects at the expense of other necessary projects. And governments…
By Jeff Thomas If you are white and reading this the next few lines will likely anger and perturb you. If you are black and reading this the next…
By Jeff Thomas A recent trip to the African American Museum of History and Culture was inspiring and motivational. Despite the current attempts to roll back recent progress, the general…
by Jeff Thomas Congressman Cedric Richmond’s Party. This invitation only event is the biggest party of Essence and one of the biggest parties of the year. A who’s who of…
By Jeff Thomas When news broke that the city spent over $2 million to remove the Confederate monuments at the same time that we learned that New Orleans had one…
By Jeff Thomas The progressive and inspirational act of removing the Confederate monuments that littered the New Orleans skyline is in danger of turning into a hollow act of triviality. …
SPECIAL THANKS TO TAKE EM DOWN NOLA FOR KEEPING THIS URGENT AND CURRENT By Jeff Thomas Mayor Mitch Landrieu has shown the kind of bold and strong leadership worthy of…