1. More on climate change destroying the ocean ecosystem and the rise of jellyfish as our new overlords. 2. Support for fracking declines in the United States. This is useful given our embrace of the technology without anything close to the proper research as to...
Louisiana
Louisiana Republicans are projecting just a wee bit too much here. According to a Public Policy Polling survey, 29 percent of Louisiana Republicans say President Obama is more to blame.
The state of Louisiana (and the voters themselves) have cut off funding for the last operating ferry in New Orleans. Big deal, right? Who takes the ferry anymore? The answer.
The West fertilizer plant disaster has faded from the headlines but that doesn't mean our national workplace inspection system has improved at all. On Thursday, a petrochemical plant exploded in Louisiana, killing 2 and injuring about 100. The last time this plant received an OSHA...
When you let a mining company do whatever it wants with limited regulations, it turns out that horrible things can happen, like gigantic sinkholes that destroy people's homes and make.
Among the many problems with decentralized charter school systems is that students end up being taught anything that the crazy people who often run them want. Such is the case.
Having never actually been to a museum dedicated to the Confederacy before, I had to go to the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum in New Orleans while attending the American Historical Association meeting last weekend. What can one say about such a place? The building was...
On November 22, 1887, a group of white vigilantes crushed a Knights of Labor led strike of black sugar workers in the fields around Thibodaux, Louisiana. Fighting back against largest.
You people and your demands for me to continue this series. When I was at Netroots Nation, I had several people, including Dave Dayen from Firedoglake, come up to me.
I found the comment section on my bayou post of yesterday interesting for a couple of reasons, including that saving the marshes is an impossible task. This really is not true. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have shaped the river to satisfy a number...
Outside of the larger spectre of climate change, the biggest environmental crisis in the United States is the melting of southern Louisiana into the ocean.* A combination of diking the.
Why do I not find it the least bit surprising that the "Tigers" in the LSU Tigers is not named for the animal but for the Louisiana Tigers, a notoriously.