Everybody likes to think they’re important, but here in Louisiana we really are. Two sectors of our local economy are major components of the national, and global, economy: oil and gas, and renewable energy. Outside of the oil companies who physically drill for oil, there is a huge industry of companies who do everything else…
Read MoreMelinda Palacio was 2 when she realized she wasn’t a suitcase. She was to spend the next 15 or so years in South Central Los Angeles growing up witnessing kids getting shot on her front porch in a drive-by, her father in jail for attempted murder, and her mother dying at the hands of incompetent…
Read MoreIt totally depends on your defintion of “explicit”. If you’ve ever been in a New Orelans bar and discussed transgender issues, vaginas, insanity, the quality of pies in various institutions from NOPD lockup to remanded-in-custody mental institutions, you’re not going to be too suprised or offended by the content of this podcast. However, apparently if…
Read MoreYou don’t have to go to far out of New Orleans city limits to run into small-town Louisiana and the music that it incubates. From Cajun, to Zydeco, and in today’s case, bluegrass and country, Louisiana towns have cradled a number of notable roots musicians, such as singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams to Zydeco man Corey Ledet. …
Read MoreThe financial markets go up and down. The value of real estate goes up and down. The dollar strengthens and weakens. Financial advisors have a wide range of theories of risk versus diversification that they say can either make you a fortune, or hedge your bets. Through all this noise, there are investor voices who continue…
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