Even with NOLA’s roaring tourist biz, oil and gas, and renaissance boom, the Mississippi River is the heart of the city’s economy. President and CEO of the [Port of New Orleans][link1] Gary LaGrange and CFO and Treasurer of [Canal Barge][link2] Doug Downing take us behind the floodwall and onto the water. [link1]: http://www.portno.com/[link2]: http://www.canalbarge.com/

New Orleans is rising from the debris of 2005 in ways that could never have been predicted, even by the most optimistic of prognosticators. For the first few years of the post 2008 bounce-back recovery, New Orleanians were taken by surprise. Accustomed to reading stories of disasters about the city, from natural to man-made –…

Whether you believe global warming is caused by man or nature, according to NASA, 2014 was earth’s hottest year on record. One of the causes of our continued heating is the depletion of polar caps and other frozen surfaces. They help cool us not so much because they’re cold but because they’re flat and white and…

When people talk about which parts of New Orleans are desirable, you often hear the phrase, “block by block.” Meaning, in blighted parts of town there are bright spots. And in the nicer parts of town there are areas that are not so great. Two parts of town that have been commercially block by block…

No matter which era of recent U.S. history we look back on, we seem to be constantly working on two issues healthcare and education. The debate at the center of these discussions is often financial. Where is Federal or state money for reform going to come from And if reform is privately funded, how are…