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Op-Ed A Modern Christmas Carol for Corporate America By David Waldron Anderson Every December, we dust off A Christmas Carol and remind ourselves that Ebenezer Scrooge was redeemed not by becoming poor, but by remembering…
Immigration, Wages, and the Cost of Living: An Inconvenient Economic Truth By David Waldron Anderson After my last guest column ran, I received a wide range of feedback, some supportive, some angry, and some accusing…
Reaganomics Done Got My Boy Down By David Waldron Anderson Back in the early 1980s, my brother, who still runs a parking company today, had a valet employee take off with an expensive Mercedes. The…
What Mardi Gras Means to be from New Orleans By David Waldron Anderson Mardi Gras binds New Orleans and all of our surrounding parishes together like nothing else can. Everywhere in the world has celebrations,…
THE CALL: A short story introducing Col. James Innarerty Bacque Ph.d By DW Anderson Dr. Thomas Delacroix walked out of the tunnel as the head referee of the Super Bowl and felt the sound hit…
Rebuilding New Orleans from the Back of a Garbage Truck By Marcus Zwaine New Orleans’ public sanitation work is currently privatized, with big profits going to private operators. Which as a capitalist I believe as…
Canal Street: The Epicenter That Must Be Reclaimed By David Waldron Anderson Have you ever been on Canal Street at five o’clock in the morning? I was there recently, and what I saw should trouble…
Family: The Forgotten Foundation of the Democratic Promise By Marcus Zwaine Editor’s Note In this latest installment of the Marcus Zwain Editorial Series, former state Democratic vice chair Marcus Zwain reflects on the widening gap…
CEO Pay and the Public Trust By Marcus Zwaine A CEO who runs a company at their own risk, with no government protection, no public subsidy, and no regulatory barriers of entry, should be free…
The Working Poor at the Burger King Window By Marcus Zwaine Ms. Yvette just turned 60 years old. For 26 of those years, she’s worn the same fast-food uniform, working behind the counter and in…
