This article was originally published on www.scsaorg.org. Big Easy Magazine was given permission to publish by author, Richard Windmann, Ph.D. It would seem that we finally have a champion on our side. And the documents they handed over to the DA better be complete, because we WILL find out. We think it is very notable […]
My name is Charles, IÂ’m 37, and I wanted to reach out about the potential kratom ban in Louisiana. I live in New Orleans, and grew up in St Charles Parish, so to start off I am a local! I have been taking kratom for about five years and I have had no alarming side […]
These views do not necessarily reflect the views of Big Easy Magazine’s editorial staff. Fully funding the SheriffÂ’s Office to increase efficiency and accountability should be a public safety priority. Getting access to that funding by trying to pull the wool over votersÂ’ eyes is another matter entirely. In a smart, shrewd and obviously calculated […]
Which New Orleans elected leader really has the people’s back? Is it Mayor LaToya Cantrell who is making that claim in the midst of the city’s worst crime wave in years, or Councilmember Helena Moreno who just completed almost three years as City Council president and believes “when we all come together, great things can happen”?
However, research shows most people with mental illness are not violent and they are more likely to be victims of crime.
Fierce public housing advocate Sharon Jasper and her supporters are furious over Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s planned removal of Jasper from the board of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO). They call the removal unwarranted and “illegal” because Cantrell failed to initially follow state law which requires a reason for the dismal be provided.
November 16, 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of the shootings of Leonard Brown and Denver Smith on the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge (SU). Both Smith and Brown were unarmed and neither engaged in any acts of aggression that day. Yet, they were shot and killed. It has been 50 years since […]
Editor’s note: Belden Batiste and Eileen Carter filed a petition with the Secretary of State to recall Mayor LaToya Cantrell. The petition has received overwhelming response from New Orleanians voters, many of whom are upset with CantrellÂ’s lack of leadership. The Tribune newspaper recently published an editorial in support of Cantrell. Batiste wrote a scathing […]
As America continues to be the number one country in the world for new incarcerations, we can no longer continue to sit silently in the wake of yet another oppressive and biased War on Drugs.
In February of this year, The Lens Nola published an article entitled After George FloydÂ’s murder, the New Orleans City Council created a committee to hear from ‘historically marginalized communities.Â’ It never met. The committee was formed, in part, as a response to the request by local social justice advocates to examine how the cityÂ’s resources […]
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