Learning from NY: Cutting mental health carries hidden costs

City officials are right to decry the cuts to mental health services that could result from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s effort to plug a budget deficit.

Education Reform: Past is Prologue

Governor Jindal is right to try to fix our public schools. His proposal to put the best teacher in every classroom by changing the way

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We have to do something
First, The Times Picayune’s February 3, 2012 front page caption, “Who is the one percent? Location is everything.” The report by Sentier Research informs the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators ... Give Black people a chance
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The right to assemble in our Constitution’s Bill of Rights is not limited to banker’s hours! Beginning on October 6, 2011, Occupy NOLA inspired a 24/7 celebration of this fact. ... The New Council Ordinance
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I’m a young adult from New Orleans East and I am dealing with one of the biggest trials of my life. My mother was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ... Did closing the large housing projects in New Orleans create a spike in crime and violence?
One of the post-Katrina policies touted as way of reducing poverty and crime was to demolish most of the large housing projects and disperse the poor throughout the city (and ...
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