Charter Schools and High Quality Schools
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…
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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,…
By Kenneth Cooper It will begin with a caption: While the President Played Golf, a True Leader Comforted the Stricken, Toured the Devastation Cued will be a picture of Donald…
By: Urban League of Louisiana The relationship between the law enforcement community and the African American community has been strained. Contrary to the commonly expressed belief that the values of…
By Bill Quigley. Bill is a human rights lawyer who teaches at Loyola University New Orleans. When you find yourself in a suddenly darkened room, what do you do? Some…
By Bill Quigley Bill teaches law at Loyola University New Orleans and can be reached at quigley77@gmail.com Racism may well be the biggest crime in the criminal legal system.…
Wishful thinking By Shahram Chesham Ph.D. Imagine that you have tried to reach a friend (with whom you have an ambivalent relationship) by phone (or email), leaving messages, yet have…