Aug
09
2020
One of the biggest obstacles to Louisiana’s plan to save its sinking coast from the rising Gulf of Mexico has been the steady denial of climate science by almost all Republicans from President Donald Trump to those representing parishes...
Jul
25
2020
Everyone can remember when certain people and moments changed their lives. But when I heard about the passing of Woody Gagliano last week, I remembered a time and man who not only changed my life, but the course of...
Jul
12
2020
In 2012, Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential nominee, made headlines by proclaiming “Corporations are people.” Most Americans found that idea preposterous. After all, our Constitution never mentions “corporate people.” And we’re taught from the cradle that Abraham Lincoln was...
Jun
28
2020
As with most people who lived it, the Great Depression left my mother with an unshakeable belief in the value of small change. If she found a product for sale just a penny-a-pound less than at the nearby store...
Jun
13
2020
Recently a local physician had an important discussion with an ailing patient named Louisiana. It went like this.
Doctor: Tests show you have a fatal disease and there’s no cure.
Louisiana: How long do I have, Doc?
Doctor: If you make several...
May
31
2020
One of the most memorable headlines in New Orleans history was published last week. It was a quote from Tulane professor Torbjorn Tornqvist on the meaning of his team’s latest research on the future of south Louisiana in this...
May
17
2020
Scam artists follow national disasters as sure as power outages follow hurricanes. So it’s no surprise we’re seeing stories about citizens being taken advantage of by a storm of grifters while preoccupied by the economic and physical blows from...
May
03
2020
Is Louisiana’s long political acceptance of wetlands destruction, pollution and a seesaw economy controlled by a global commodity really about jobs and making America energy independent — or just about oil and gas company profits?
Is it really economic suicide for...
Apr
19
2020
By now you’ve probably read the stories about how clear and clean our air has become due to the economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. You might also have read how this is helping address climate change, since those...
Apr
05
2020
What if I told you more than 100,000 Americans are dying every year from an ongoing epidemic and your government is doing nothing about it?
And what if I told you the government not only knows about this killing epidemic;...
