In music, composers sometimes add interesting, ornamental embellishments to their compositions called grace notes. These often-unassuming grace notes add interest to the music we hear. Flourishes.

The final score on Saturday’s New Orleans property tax vote was a lopsided 29 percent yes, 71 percent no. Tallied a different way, it was Mayor LaToya Cantrell 1, City Council 0. In a truly strange ...

Yesterday, I wrote that U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is remarkably good at sensing how an issue is playing, and putting himself on the right side. The latest of many examples came this week, when Kennedy ...

With so many other Democrats moving forward while he’s hung back, it’s been looking for a while as if former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is taking himself out of contention for the party’s 2020 ...