January 2013 Archive

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Feds indict Ray Nagin on 21 counts
C. Ray Nagin, the businessman and former New Orleans mayor who famously jumped out of a horse-drawn carriage to second line with residents while en route to his first inauguration ...
John Mac charter board meeting explodes
By Della Hasselle thelensnola.org John McDonogh High School’s charter board cut short its monthly meeting last week after a shouting match erupted between board members and an audience of about 50, including ...
Make the King holiday count
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor How do you plan to spend the Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday? Reading a good book that you haven’t been able to find the time to read? ...
Much ado about nothing
By Earl Ofari payday loans on powell Hutchinson New America Media Columnist Politics made for strange bedfellows in those taking swipes at President Obama’s white guy appointees. Staunch GOP conservative Mike Huckabee ...
NRA maintains stranglehold on Congress
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the wake of the killing of 20 school children in Newtown, Conn. last month and just before Vice President Joe Biden presented a list of ...
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Ray Nagin indicted
The indictment of Ray Nagin on 21 federal corruption charges including wire fraud, bribery, money laundering, filing false tax returns, and conspiracy on Friday is yet another nail in the ...
The massive human and moral cost of gun violence
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The heartrending massacre of 20, 6- and 7-year-old children and six educators in Newtown, Conn. has galvanized public attention once again after a mass shooting. ...
The pied piper of Tremé and elsewhere
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Armand Francis Xavier Theri-ault was a second-year novice in September1947 when I him as a first-year novice at the SVD seminary in Techny Illinois ...
What are you learning during Mardi Gras?
By Dr. Andre M. Perry Contributing Columnist Mardi Gras season is upon us, which means there are more days that our children are not in school. Between Mardi Gras, Christmas, summer, fall ...
$70M jobs rebuild America initiative
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, The National Urban League “We urge that a comprehensive jobs program be developed and executed by way of a partnership that includes government, the private sector and ...

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