Driving up Tulane Avenue to work I pass the Charity Hospital complex regularly. But first I pass under the Claiborne Avenue Expressway. Seeing these two great masses of concrete in the same frame sets my thoughts going about preservation and unintended consequences. In 1960, the Chamber of Commerce ...
By Deon Roberts, Online Editor The makeup of the board for a new teaching hospital in New Orleans has become an area of dispute between LSU and Tulane University. According to The Associated Press, LSU’s Board of Supervisors wants to boost LSU’s representation on the board. But Tulane has rejected a ...
Last week the Senate Education Committee deep-sixed House Bill 780 which would require that LSU produce a legitimate business plan to pay for the proposed $1.2 billion LSU Academic Medical Center in lower mid-city. It’s just common sense to have a sound financial plan in place to pay for a project w ...
Dennis Woltering's interviews with Lower Mid-City homeowners from last Friday or Lower Mid-City businessman Mickey Weiser's op-ed in the Times-Picayune from yesterday. My favorite line from the Woltering interviews belongs to Gail Ruth: "I think people are getting screwed." My favorite part of Weise ...
Movie: The Kid (1921) “The opening title reads: “A comedy with a smile–and perhaps a tear”. As she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding, Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby b ...
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