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A House? In this Economy?
Have you heard the talk of the town? Word on the street is that housing availability is down and decreasing, mortgage and insurance rates are up and increasing, and cries of a looming economic recession ring louder than them all. New Orleans isn’t beating the curve, coming hot off a blazing summer and an AirBnB… Read more
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The Black, Green, and Red Scare
By Francisco J. Roman III (Francisco J. Roman) College campuses across the country stand divided this semester as the entire world has its eyes on the rising tensions in the Middle East. Tulane University is no exception. On Thursday, October 26th, 2023, an intended peaceful protest organized by Tulane Students for Palestine, ended in a… Read more
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Homeless, not Hopeless
By Danto Chavez-Golden Two weeks ago, on an otherwise average Tuesday, I found myself walking through a disheveled micro-forest parallel to the Uptown edge of the New Orleans levee system that runs along the Mississippi river. Just a half mile behind me, one could see college kids and private school soccer moms buying fifteen dollar… Read more
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Chandler’s Bride is Not a Southern Belle
By Lien Duke Shelby Christmas is not your typical Southern Belle. Originally from Mississippi, she’s lived in New Orleans since she was nine. She’s twenty-four years old, stands at 5’5”, and has hair dyed dark with hints of fading green and blue. She tends to wear black or other dark colors and is never without… Read more
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The Smallest Colonizers of New Orleans
By Raquel Shulman Take a walk down any New Orleans residential street, and you are destined to see it—a house wrapped in a vibrant striped tarp. No, it is not a pop-up circus. Instead, it is any subtropical homeowner’s worst nightmare: the last resort for a termite infestation. “There are two major groups: Formoson Subterranean… Read more