Errol Laborde's Commentary

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By Errol Laborde


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Great Breakfast New Orleans Style

It all started with Elizabeth Kettenring Begue, who migrated from Bavaria to New Orleans in the late 1800s, feeding French Market workers from her kitchen on Decatur Street where Tujaque’s now stands. Her 50-item Bohemian Breakfast, which cost $1 including wine, attracted not only the farmers and fishermen but also, eventually, gourmets from across the country.
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Fraud Finders

The feds have been in pusuit of post-Katrina hucksters
One of Donovan McMullen’s partners was a snitch, so he decided to kill him. McMullen got his hands on a Star 9-mm pistol and filed off the serial number. During a clandestine meeting in the woods outside Natchitoches, La., he handed the untraceable pistol and a magazine full of Hydroshock ammunition to his other partner-in-crime, Michael Proveaux, and told him to get the job done quickly.
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FEATURES

Great Breakfast New Orleans Style

Where but New Orleans might one dine on escargots or Oysters Rockefeller for breakfast?

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Mothers and Daughters

Similarities and differences in their own words

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Fraud Finders

The feds have been in pusuit of post-Katrina hucksters

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Anatomy of an Uptown Murder

I was on the phone with a friend of mine and three shots rang out,” says “Lori” a professional researcher who lives near the Uptown Square shopping mall. Lori says she then told her girlfriend: “Mark the time, in case I have to testify.” Her friend replied, “You’ll know for sure when you hear the...

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It is Time to Rethink Parking Laws

New Orleans’ downtown area and the French Quarter are being strangled by parking regulations that are outdated and by a Parking Violations Bureau that’s predatory in its practices. For the sake of economic growth, both the regulations and the bureau need to be overhauled.

Through the...

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