May 2025 LETTER FROM AN EDITOR Ever since I was a teenager, one of my favorite holidays has been May Day—the first of May. This holiday has the wonderful distinction of syncretism between the European pagan... Jesse Lu Baum
May 2025 FOR THE RECORD On April 3, the joint Governmental Affairs Economic Development Committee of the New Orleans City Council met and discussed a resolution “Prioritizing transparency, public... Jesse Lu Baum
March 2025 Critical Condition: UMC Nurses Return to the Picket Line On February 5, downtown New Orleans was a frenzy of last-minute painting and patch jobs as the city prepared to host the Super Bowl, while only a few blocks from the Dome, the... Jesse Lu Baum
February 2025 FOR THE RECORD On January 8, the New Orleans City Council Joint Public Works – Criminal Justice Committee held their first meeting of 2025. It was in the immediate aftermath of the New... Jesse Lu Baum
January 2025 FOR THE RECORD On December 16, the New Orleans City Council Utility committee voted unanimously in favor of allowing Entergy to sell their gas operations for $484 million to Bernhard Capital, a... Jesse Lu Baum
December 2024 FOR THE RECORD On November 7, City Council approved the creation of a new Municipal ID for New Orleanians. Municipal IDs are issued by local governments rather than the state or federal... Jesse Lu Baum
November 2024 FOR THE RECORD On September 19, the New Orleans City Council voted to approve a change to New Orleans’ Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to allow billboards in part of New Orleans East along... Jesse Lu Baum
November 2024 REVIEWS ... Erin Hall, Jamal Melancon-Hill, Jesse Lu Baum, Mary Beth Campbell, Sara Nicole Storm, Steven Melendez, Terra Durio, Veronica Cross, Victoria Conway, William Archambeault
July 2024 FOR THE RECORD On June 6, the City Council reviewed and approved the “clean zone” for Essence Fest. Much like Germany’s “purity law” (which governs the brewing of beer in Bavaria),... Jesse Lu Baum
May 2024 Los Güiros “What is cumbia?” The year was 2015, the place was Montevideo, Uruguay, and as a bit of a music rube, I was asking my friend. “TS-tsts-TS-tsts-TS” he responded. And in... Jesse Lu Baum
April 2024 FOR THE RECORD Last year, the Port of New Orleans and the Port of Ashdod in Israel announced their intent to form a so-called “innovation embassy” in New Orleans, as part of an Israeli trade... Jesse Lu Baum
February 2024 Solidarity in Scrubs The end of 2023 was a monumental time for the nurses of University Medical Center (UMC). Fed up with issues of short-staffing and scant supplies, UMC nurses began organizing to... Jesse Lu Baum
