An attack on our small business owners, our working poor, our neighbors with disabilities, families facing food insecurity, people who rely on SNAP, the homeless, and communities burdened by environmental injustice. What is next, Mr. Trump? We have already seen the assault on health care through the so called big beautiful bill that is anything […]
Editor’s note: Congressman Troy Carter’s full statement can be found here. In a dramatic late-night vote to avert a prolonged government shutdown, a small but pivotal group of Senate Democrats joined Republicans to pass a short-term funding bill; and unfortunately, it’s one that excluded key Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credit extensions. The decision effectively […]
In a sharp rebuke to federal policy emerging from Washington, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. condemned a recently-issued USDA directive that restricts grocery retailers from offering special discounts or additional support to families relying on SNAP benefits during a federal funding lapse. The order, highlighted in Carter’s statement on November 2, effectively prevents stores from […]
Not surprisingly, a state investigation found that it’s American citizens who vote in Louisiana. At a divided and depressing time in the country, there’s a bit of quiet good news on voting. It comes in an unexpected place. Louisiana politics has long stirred a rich gumbo of tall tales and wild rumors. “When I die, […]
As Mayor LaToya Cantrell heads to federal court for arraignment, the charging document against her reads like a roadmap of overlapping theories of public-corruption: a fraud scheme built on taxpayer-funded travel and on-duty hours for her then, police bodyguard, and an obstruction campaign that allegedly used disappearing messages, misleading sworn statements, and pressure on subordinates […]
In America, drug narratives are not shaped by science. They are shaped by corporations, political influence, and the algorithms that decide what we see online. The story of kratom proves this point. For years, the FDA has repeated the line that there is “no scientific evidence” that kratom has medical properties. That claim is echoed […]
The indictment of Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her alleged lover, former NOPD Executive Security Jeffrey Vappie is the kind of national news Newman Orleans somehow cannot avoid. A city built on a swamp by pirates, slaves, prostitutes, free people of color and greedy Europeans, where illicit sexual relationships were the norm, is unfortunately still known […]
When Susan Hutson took the oath on May 2, 2022, New Orleans marked a milestone of electing the city’s first woman and first Black woman as sheriff in Louisiana. Hutson has prided herself as being a reformer whose career in oversight (from the LAPD to New Orleans’ independent police monitor) promised a clean break with […]
Orleans Parish Chief Elections Officer Darren P Lombard announced this evening that the candidacy of five individuals who recently qualified for the October 2025 municipal elections has been challenged. The candidates who are defendants in the lawsuits and the offices they are seeking include: Tyrell Morris (Mayor), Gabrielle Harris Thomas (Mayor), Kevin Griffin Clark (Council […]
A sense of change was clearly in the air during a fast and furious three days at Criminal District Court. Five dozen first-timers as well as incumbents, perennials and other seasoned candidates paid their qualifying fees to run for New Orleans mayor, sheriff, council and other offices. Though the funds needed to fully communicate with […]
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