New Orleans is one of the most poor and obese cities in the country. And if health is wealth, then the city is sick. Maybe even ICU sick in some…
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It’s Been 17 Years Since Katrina
It’s been 17 years. Can you believe it? Time has flown by. Everybody has gotten so much older and thicker. 17 years is not a particularly memorable milestone. But here…
Get Rid of the NOPD Consent Decree?
If the consent decree is lifted will the NOPD go back to the villainous brutalizing ways? Here’s the problem with lifting a consent decree. We don’t really know what happens…
Creating More Home Ownership in New Orleans
Home ownership is the key to New Orleans’s problems. Homeowners have better lives. Homeowners create generational wealth. Also, homeowners commit fewer crimes. Plus, homeowners create stable neighborhoods. And stable neighborhoods…
More Jobs Not More Police
New Orleans is really about the number 85. 85 more good jobs for black men is far better than 85 more police officers. We need more jobs, not more police.…
How to Stop Car Jackings in NOLA
And you don’t have to put more police on the street. By Jeff Thomas The public response to the uptick in car jackings is pure unadulterated insanity. More police. Try…
Play Therapy: Art and Reparations
by Orissa Arend The play is “Reparations with OT and Mama NOLA” commissioned for performance at the Justice and Beyond Reparations Town Hall on March 12 and then…
Gentrification is Changing New Orleans before our eyes.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE MAJORITY OF BLACK NEW ORLEANIANS DON’T BENEFIT FROM NOLA’S BLACK POLITICAL MAJORITY Gentrification is Changing New Orleans before our eyes. Between 96,000 and 100,000…
Do Our Schools Breed Criminals?
Let the last legislative audit tell it, our school system sucks. The Orleans Parish School Board/NOLA Public Schools (NOLA-PS) and the Louisiana Department of Education have been operating charter schools…
The City Faces A Spike In Evictions, As Well As Crime
It ain’t easy being the First City Court Clerk these days. Just ask Austin Badon, the man doing the job. If dealing with COVID related issues wasn’t enough, his office…