Errol Laborde

Air Force One will be descending over New Orleans Tuesday as President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden, come to New Orleans to attend a “Cancer Moonshot” event

Joe Biden was in town last week and, while we don’t know how he liked the barbecued oysters at Dragos, his visit at least prompted us to wonder about past

Were it not for Abraham Lincoln the term “fourscore” would not just be forgotten but possibly never ever surfaced beyond the middle ages when it was an occasionally used phrase to represent 80 years?Lincoln rescued the phrase at Gettysburg by adding the number seven to represent the time span from the Declaration of Independence in

On a Sunday morning in 2017 I was driving down Canal Street when there was a traffic buildup as we approached North Carrollton Avenue. That’s a busy

Though no such award exists there should be one named after Abigail Adams for “Political Family Fortitude;” particularly to honor those women who supported

Q: What did my dinner last night have in common with watching TV coverage of Hurricane Francine?

The 1949 Storming of the Sazerac | Photo provided by The Roosevelt New Orleans

In 1789, for the first ever United States Presidential election, the decision of who to vote for was fairly easy – George Washington. Four years later, as the incumbent’s first term expired, it was the same thing – Washington all the way. Finally, in 1796, came what might be considered the first seriously contested election between two candidates. Their names were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Adams won but Jefferson would later achieve the office too. Both would be major figures in the young nation’s evolution.

John Kennedy made the phrase famous, since then it has become part of the lasting rhetoric of American politics.

Something on one of the plane's tables caught the president’s attention. It was a copy of our publication, New Orleans Magazine. He was amused that the cover