While supporters of the effort to recall Mayor LaToya Cantrell might not have met their goal, they are making progress in changing the rules under which recalls operate in Louisiana.
Category: Social Issues
Tubby & Coo’s Book Shop Can Now Come to You With Mobile Store
May 15, 2023Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, the local, queer-owned independent book shop focused on science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, queer, and diverse books, is on the move! The shop will close its location at 432 N. Anthony St. and instead operate as a mobile bookshop. The final day for the Mid-City store is May 29. […]
Involuntary Slavery and Servitude Should Be Prohibited in Louisiana
May 12, 2023Newly-elected New Orleans State Rep. Alonzo Knox has gotten off to a fast start by strongly advocating for an important piece of legislation by State Rep. Edmond Jordan to prohibit involuntary slavery and involuntary servitude (HB 211). But the pair are receiving pushback from legislators who cling to Louisiana’s historic past. Louisiana has an ugly […]
New Orleans Needs To Get Ambitious on Public Safety
May 12, 2023My heart aches because I am wondering how we got here. “Here,” for New Orleans, is the heinous murder of a mother while her child was in the backseat and the cold-blooded homicide of a food server at Mandina’s. These unconscionable killings occurred blocks from where I grew up and still currently reside in Mid-City. […]
Judge Veronica Henry To Seek Vacant Seat in Civil District Court
May 10, 2023Judge Veronica Henry, who has served with distinction in First City Court for more than a decade, has announced her intentions to run for Orleans Parish Civil District Court Division G. The seat will be available due to the pending retirement of long-time Judge Robin Giarrusso. “It is an honor and privilege serving the citizens […]
Realtime Accountability at Heart of New Recall Legislation
April 23, 2023A contingent of more than 50 Louisiana voters who were merely bystanders in the recent campaign to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell are headed to Baton Rouge Tuesday, April 25 to voice their support of H.B. 212 by Covington State Rep. Paul Hollis.
Big Easy Magazine Opposes Sheriff Susan Hutson’s Millage Proposition
April 20, 2023We at Big Easy Magazine respect Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson. She took on the gargantuan task of improving the Orleans Justice Center and bettering the lives of the men and women who reside there. We strongly supported Sheriff Hutson in her campaign to unseat former Sheriff Marlin Gusman who had become complacent and out-of-touch. […]
State Rep Kyle Green Jr. Pushes Legislation To End Death Penalty
April 19, 2023Louisiana is one of 27 states where the death penalty is still the rule of law. State Rep. Kyle Green Jr., D-Marrero, is strongly advocating for legislation to change that equation. He’s authored HB 228 which eliminates the death penalty in Louisiana as a possible punishment for the offense of first degree murder, for degree […]
Students From Travis Hill School, Inside JJIC, Win Contest To Address Local Issues, Cite Mental Health
April 17, 2023Seven high school students from Travis Hill School, the school inside the New Orleans juvenile jail (JJIC), entered a contest sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Bezos Family Foundation. The project was to come up with solutions to major problems facing the city. The Travis Hill students’ solution was addressing mental health, because they see […]
Will Air Products Desecrate Graves of the Enslaved in Ascension Parish?
April 17, 2023Air Products wants to build a hydrogen and ammonia plant in Burnside, Louisiana, on the former Orange Grove Plantation – once owned by John Burnside who by 1860 enslaved over 750 people on his sugar plantations in the town named after him. Records recently obtained from the Louisiana Division of Archeology show that Air Products […]
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