New Orleans & Company CEO Stephen Perry must be the most egotistical and out-of-touch non-profit leader in the city’s history. Here at The New Orleans Tribune, we feel pretty confident in making that assessment as messages Perry sent to members of Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s reveal the unreasonable and unrealistic position...
Fighting to Re-Open Louisiana too Soon is Callous and Beyond Stupid
This is going to be a brief one, guys. There's just not much we can say because two things are clear. You can't fix stupid. And you can't fix callous, either. We must go record with the fact that we fully support Gov. John Bel Edwards' extension of the state's...
Congratulations, Ray Nagin!
We were happy to learn that Ray Nagin, former mayor of Orleans, had been released from federal prison and is now reunited with his family in Texas. The New Orleans Tribune wrote about the federal investigation and prosecution of Nagin during the trial. And we had our opinions. We were never...
WHILE WE ARE QUARANTINING . . .
THE EXHIBITION HALL AUTHORITY WAS CHOOSING FINALISTS FOR ITS $557 MILLION HOTEL PROJECT The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Exhibition Hall Authority, the governing body of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, announced on Monday (April 21) that he had received proposals from master development teams to develop 39-acres...
No Time for the Blame Game
There is probably no individual or organization that encourages personal responsibility and the need for those of us in the Black community to save ourselves more than we do here at The New Orleans Tribune. Our mantra: "We must save ourselves because no one else will." Of course, Black Americans...
400 Years is Not A Trend: COVID-19 Exposes The Impact of Institutional Racism in America
When Gov. John Bel Edwards announced during his daily COVID-19 press conference on Monday that a disturbing trend had emerged, his statement on the subject was so brief that we weren’t sure everyone had heard it. By now, you know what he shared: African Americans, who comprise only 32 percent...
Somebody Has to Say It: Archdiocese-Saints Scandal Boggles the Mind, E-mails Should be Made Public
How did that conservation go? Yeah, yeah, yeah…we understand that Saints owner Gayle Benson has a “close” friendship with Archbishop Gregory Aymond, according to media reports. But a close friendship is one thing. Each and everyone of us is free to choose our best buds. Hey, we have close friends...
Somebody Has to Say It: The Mayor’s Personal Tax Liability Has Nothing to do with Her Ability to Govern
We speculate that some of the very people who are so worried about what Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s $95,000 IRS tax lien means as it relates to her ability to govern the city were among those in the Superdome at the national college football championship, cheering and clapping for President Donald...