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The New Orleans municipal races are starting to pick up steam. Mailers are arriving, TV and radio ads are growing louder, and voters are beginning to pay closer attention. Multiple…
Broke City, Broken Politics Let’s play a game of word association; aka connotations. I’m going to type a word or phrase, then associate it. In the comments, you can tell…
The Season Turns, But the Lead Holds Finally, it’s here. The moment you’ve been waiting for. September. Post Labor Day. You know what that means. It’s time for the gloves…
A Gavel Aimed at the Voter’s Mind Mayor LaToya Cantrell cannot run again. She is term-limited. Still the US Attorney dropped an indictment just weeks before the next election. The…
From Our Friends at The New Orleans Tribune Unity or Division: What’s at Stake in the New Orleans Mayoral Race When are we going to get our stuff together? Why…
Governor Jeff Landry ran for office promising to be tough on crime. He aired racially charged campaign ads that painted New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Black parishes as hotbeds of…
President Trump has threatened to send National Guard troops into New Orleans. Governor Jeff Landry has welcomed the idea. But do we really need soldiers on our streets? Crime Is…
by Dr. Kyshun Webster I know what it feels like to have your life’s work twisted into a weapon against you. Twice, I’ve watched as my commitment to equity and…
by Langston Price A Mayor Made History Again Mayor LaToya Cantrell, New Orleans’ first female mayor, made history again. This time, she is the first sitting mayor indicted in the…
From Map Fights to Ballot Blockades In my last column, I explained how Louisiana’s redistricting battle became a tangled mess — with one court ordering a second majority-Black district, another…