Fourteen years after it was adopted on a Democratic Party line vote and seven years after the late John McCain’s dramatic thumbs-down killed then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal it,…
Our country’s future feels like it’s hanging in the balance as we count down to Election Day. Locally, though, this campaign season hasn’t exactly set many pulses pounding.
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In political science terms, New Orleans has what’s known as a strong mayor system of government, one that allows the chief executive to exert enormous, often unchecked leadership.