New Orleans French Quarter Memories For all of us that grew up in and around New Orleans, the French Quarter played a major role in our lives. Can’t you remember as a teenager on Friday and Saturday nights driving up and down Bourbon Street? Or maybe after a date, it was a late night of […]
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Jefferson Parish Schools Lie With Statistics In a recent article in The American Conservative, writer Rod Dreher discussed the actions of John White, the head of education for the state of Louisiana. While the article focused on East Baton Rouge, it could have just as well used the Jefferson Parish School system. As the Jefferson […]
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New Orleans Police Department is under a Federal Consent decree to clean up their act. The NOPD’s interpretation is to rebuild the Second District police station. Wow, now that is truly innovative police restructuring at its finest! The crumbling infrastructure is “not” the building! If the public was ever provided access to all the things […]
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Louisiana economic development is easy – gave away the ranch and everyone will come running! But are these tax credits and other incentives really beneficial to the citizens of Louisiana or just another way to subsidize a few selected individuals? It’s not unusual anymore to find Louisiana streets blocked as we have become known as […]
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More Challenges for Louisiana Higher Education Revenues Louisiana higher education generates significant revenues from out of state tuition. Can these universities depend on out of state tuition in the future? Perhaps not. In a recent article published by OnlineColleges.org, Christine Fisher discusses the impact of out-of-state tuition on the cost of higher education. As more […]
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Healthcare Insanity – get big, cut costs, and provide less expensive better care to the patients of East Jefferson Parish. At least in the old days when State Senator Dudley J. marketed Hadacol as Hadacol to the Rescue of East Jefferson Hospitala cure for what ailed us, it had a12% alcohol content! The Snake Oil […]
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New Orleans Politics – Cronies Thrive The problems in New Orleans politics are many, well-documented, and in most cases attributable to the long-time political insiders of New Orleans’ Mayor Dejour! To name just a few we need look no further than the crime and corruption in the NOPD, the well-document issues at Orleans Parish Prison […]
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