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Yes, it’s true — I’m running for office. Please visit my main site to learn why. BartEverson.com I hope you’ll consider getting involved and supporting…
I’d like to present a pertinent letter from an old friend of mine. Six Questions for the NRA on Scribd Note: I met Jeff Moebus…
I’m going out on a limb and predict Obama wins in 2012. You may scoff but remember I have an unblemished record of success in…
In a few days, I’ll be making a presentation to a special interest group of the AERA titled “The Role of Blogs in the Rebuilding…
This sign is on a house on Canal Street. I’m not sure but I strongly suspect this may have been placed by a guy calling…
This caught my eye on the the front page of today’s Times-Picayune: “It always amazed me that you had these two universities that were right…
Since it’s Veterans Day, I thought I’d point to something written by a veteran. Here’s an article by Bradford J. Kelley, which appeared in the…
Back in June (if not earlier) Sarah Palin wrote: Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust…
It might seem to the rest of the country that New Orleanians are insular and self-absorbed. There’s some truth to that; sometimes this place feels…
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. — Otto von Bismarck I had the chance to observe a bit…
The mayor came to our campus yesterday.
A few weeks back I had a bit of an educational experience. I can’t get into specifics, but I’m wondering if I might be able…
Despite the rain, hundreds of people turned out for the protest yesterday, so many I couldn’t fit them all even in this wide panoramic shot.…
I was recently contacted by a college student at a certain large Midwestern state-sponsored university. It seems he was enrolled in a revolutionary film studies…
Photo by Derek Bridges As I am writing this the very last minutes of the Nagin administration are ticking away. I for one am relieved.…
We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat. — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal,…
I got this update from Baty Landis via e-mail. She’s on the task force assigned by the incoming mayor to find a new police chief. I respect Baty’s efforts on this front; she is made of sterner stuff than I. What she reports is cause for concern for all New Orleanians.
Since I don’t seem to have anything interesting to say, I thought I’d just link to Oyster’s brilliant short essay on why we need to…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derek_b/ / CC BY 2.0 This passage in a news story caught my eye. Mary Rickard for Reuters: Along with a championship team, New Orleans…