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The United States now officially has climate change refugees that the government is paying to move. One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the...

Lafayette

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On July 25, 2015

We can learn lessons from the mass murders that are a monthly event in this nation. We learned, as a nation, from Dylann Roof, that the Confederate flag is a.

Always for Pleasure

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On July 1, 2015
I had a whole bunch of stuff to write about today and then it didn't happen for a number of reasons. But I still found time to watch Les Blank's 1978 film about the culture of New Orleans, Always for Pleasure. It's not available as...

Louisiana

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On January 15, 2015

Louisiana is a really well-run state: Public college and university campuses in Louisiana could close if the state ends up cutting $300 million or more out of its higher education.

Erasing Labor

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On August 29, 2014
A minor detail in this article on the history of Tabasco sauce, but one that is telling about how, when we are talking about "innovators," we forget who actually does the work: Accounts differ as to when exactly McIlhenny acquired the seeds for those Capsicum...
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