By Jeff Thomas Draft picks are like weather reports. Sometimes an alert warns of a soon to hit tornado, sometimes you get a lot of rain and sometimes you get…
Category: Jeff’s Thoughts
Bust out the Water Hoses and Growling Dogs
by Jeff Thomas In 2017, illegally acting, outside agitators cannot be allowed to subvert the will of the people of New Orleans. Circa 1963…
Traffic Cameras Are Still Illegal in New Orleans
By Jeff Thomas If you started seeing green stop signs in certain parts of town, you might think you something strange is going on. And if you saw traffic…
Options for Replacing the Confederate Statues
Erect Statues for Morial, L’Overture, Deslonde, and Pinchback By Jeff Thomas Ernest “Dutch” Morial was the first African American mayor in the city of New Orleans. His place in New…
Top 5 Things to Make New Orleans and Louisiana Better
By Jeff Thomas We all want a better New Orleans. The biggest and single most critical factor preventing NOLA from being as great as it can be is the 46%…
Landrieu is Just Like Donald Trump
By Jeff Thomas Tyrone Blackman, a 22 year old native New Orleanian, was arrested twice in the last 10 months. The first time Tyrone was sent to jail for standing…
Hiring More Police Is Not the Solution
By Jeff Thomas New Orleans is really about the number 85. First one: 85% of eligible African American men in NOLA do not own homes. The bedazzlingly incompetent Mayor Mitch…
Sheriff Normand is a National Disgrace
By Jeff Thomas That a white sheriff in the deep south feels empowered and emboldened to derisively and condescendingly speak to the African American community that dared question his actions…
Close Prisons and Reduce Crime
Part of Our Series on Mass Incarceration By Jeff Thomas What Louisiana’s legislators have lacked in creativity over the years, they have compensated mightily with plagiarism/copying. In fact, hundreds of…
Eliminate All Bonds for Non-Violent Offenses
Part of Our Series on Mass Incarceration by Jeff Thomas There was a time people smoked in the office at work. Ashtrays were everywhere. Cigarette companies were the biggest sponsors…