+2 Clancy DuBos: 100 days into the job, New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno’s off to a good start BY CLANCY DUBOS Apr 21, 2026 Ultimately, it’s up to us to write our history, cure our ills, right our wrongs, and most of all lean on and raise up one another.
+7 Behind the headlines: The case against New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell Updated Aug 20, 2025 Last week, LaToya Cantrell became the first sitting New Orleans mayor to face criminal prosecution when a federal grand jury handed up an 18-count indictment against her and her former New Orl…
+4 Clancy DuBos: Da Winnas & Da Loozas from a fiscal legislative session that focused on just about everything else BY CLANCY DuBOS Updated Jun 18, 2025 I know. I know. I told everyone I was retiring at the end of 2024. But, as Michael Corleone famously lamented, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” And what stronger “pull” t…
+2 Clancy DuBos: UNO played quietly crucial role in launching the National WWII Museum BY CLANCY DuBOS Jun 5, 2025 Most everyone knows that the National WWII Museum is one of New Orleans’ crown jewels. Its official opening 25 years ago as the National D-Day Museum attracted Hollywood celebrities, prominent…
+2 Clancy DuBos: Wildly irreverent but never mean, Jay Batt got things done his way BY CLANCY DuBOS May 27, 2025 New Orleans’ history is filled with outsized political characters who, despite their shenanigans, left their marks on the city. In this age of social media, however, few pols dare to carry on …
+2 Clancy DuBos: Bubba Henry, h's Lincoln, lived and served with joy and humor BY CLANCY DuBOS Apr 28, 2025 Much has been written — deservedly so — about Bubby Henry’s transformative impact on the arc of Louisian politics and government during his tenure as House speaker, chair of the 1973 constitu…
+4 Clancy DuBos: Not goodbye, just a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to my teachers and mentors BY CLANCY DuBOS Updated Dec 30, 2024 This is my last weekly column for The Times-Picayune|h, but I’m not saying goodbye. I’m just marking the end of my Long Strange Trip in print journalism. I ain’t dead, but I am seri…
+4 Behind the Headlines with Clancy DuBos: 'I hope people will say I was honest with my readers' BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist Updated Dec 26, 2024 Columnist and Gambit political editor Clancy DuBos ends his remarkable run next week. But before he drifts off into semi-retirement, he sat down with colleague Stephanie Grace to share some of…
+8 Clancy DuBos: h's Top 10 Political Stories of 2024 BY CLANCY DuBOS Updated Dec 26, 2024 There were so many big political stories in 2024 that my initial list ran well past the usual dozen or so items. I considered trying to convince my colleagues that a column on the year’s top 1…
+4 Clancy DuBos: The Top 10 Political Stories of 2024 BY CLANCY DuBOS Updated Dec 24, 2024 There were so many big political stories in 2024 that my initial list ran well past the usual dozen or so items. I considered trying to convince my colleagues that a column on the year’s top 1…
+2 Clancy DuBos: Failed Jefferson tax for teacher raises proves every vote counts BY CLANCY DuBOS Updated Dec 16, 2024 If you want proof that every vote counts, check out the results of the Jefferson Parish School Board’s property tax proposition on Dec. 7. The proposed 10.89-mill tax would have given public s…
+3 Clancy DuBos: John Fleming attacks Bill Cassidy’s right flank — and shows the cost of crossing Trump BY CLANCY DuBOS Dec 9, 2024 It didn’t take long for state Treasurer John Fleming to prove his critics right. After less than a year in office, he’s already off and running for the U.S. Senate against two-term incumbent B…
+5 Clancy DuBos: Da Winnas & Da Loozas — and some surprises — from the recent special session BY CLANCY DuBOS Updated Dec 26, 2024 The old saw that no one is safe in life, liberty or property as long as the h Legislature is in session was never truer than in Gov. Jeff Landry’s hastily called — and even more franti…
+3 Clancy DuBos: Ginger Berrigan’s compassion and humor set her apart as a lawyer and judge BY CLANCY DuBOS Nov 23, 2024 Only the rarest of people truly leave a mark on their chosen fields. Rarer still are those whose legacies impact, in a markedly positive way, multiple fields. The late U.S. District Judge Ging…
Clancy DuBos: Once again, the Senate is the fulcrum for Jeff Landry’s big ideas BY CLANCY DuBOS Nov 19, 2024 Irony can have a balancing, even curative effect on the governing process. Case in point: The h Senate, which killed some of Gov. Jeff Landry’s worst ideas in previous legislative sess…
Clancy DuBos: Will Jeff Landry tame lawmakers into reforming Louisian’s tax system? BY CLANCY DuBOS Nov 11, 2024 Gov. Jeff Landry’s idea of wheeling a rented live tiger into LSU’s Tiger Stadium during Saturday’s gridiron contest against Alabama’s Crimson Tide didn’t exactly go as planned. Landry had hope…
Clancy DuBos: Jeff Landry confronts h's 'tyranny of habit' in special tax session BY CLANCY DuBOS Nov 4, 2024 In his “Confessions,” St. Augustine laments his past penchant for sin, which he calls “the tyranny of habit.” In one of his most oft-quoted passages, he writes, “Habits, if not resisted, soon …
+3 Clancy DuBos: Jeff Landry’s tax session agenda proves that the devil’s in the details BY CLANCY DUBOS Oct 28, 2024 State lawmakers will convene the day after the presidential election to consider Gov. Jeff Landry’s ambitious plan to overhaul Louisian’s tax system. The 20-day special session begins Nov. 6 …
Clancy DuBos: Affordable housing in NOLA finally getting the attention it deserves BY CLANCY DuBOS Oct 21, 2024 While the presidential race is still very much a toss-up, some winners are already certain when the votes are counted in New Orleans on Nov. 5: advocates of affordable housing and persons in n…
+2 Clancy DuBos: UNO poll shows voters give credit — and blame — where they think it's due BY CLANCY DuBOS Oct 14, 2024 Results in the latest University of New Orleans Quality of Life survey remind me of something I told a top aide to then-Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu more than 14 years ago. The aide had called t…
+2 Clancy DuBos: Tax reform is a Sisyphean task; Landry deserves credit for taking it on BY CLANCY DUBOS Oct 7, 2024 If for no other reason than politics, Gov. Jeff Landry has the best chance of overhauling Louisian’s tax code since Buddy Roemer’s failed attempt at fiscal reform in 1989. Unlike most previou…
+5 Clancy DuBos: Feds hint at Cantrell indictment for petty graft amid public endangerment BY CLANCY DuBOS Sep 30, 2024 In their Sept. 27 indictment of city contractor Randy Farrell, federal prosecutors portray New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell as a venal politician abusing her office for petty graft — while pl…
+2 Clancy DuBos: Even a weakened Francine reminds us how vulnerable we are BY CLANCY DuBOS Sep 17, 2024 As Hurricane Francine bore down on Louisian’s coastline, it triggered a mixed bag of memories, emotions, fears and prayers among those who lived through the life-altering storms of the past 20 years.
+2 As Francine nears, St. Tammany Parish officials concerned about river, coastal flooding By ALEX LUBBEN | Staff writer Sep 11, 2024 As Hurricane Francine closed in on the h coast on Wednesday afternoon, northshore officials in St. Tammany Parish urged residents to hunker down and ride out the storm.
Clancy DuBos: Hurricanes remind us how much — and why — we need each other BY CLANCY DUBOS Sep 11, 2024 In h, especially New Orleans, disaster reminds us that we are neighbors, not strangers.
+4 Clancy DuBos: Remembering Sybil Morial, a Steel Magnolia whose legacy will endure BY CLANCY DuBOS Sep 9, 2024 Though not tall in stature, Sybil Haydel Morial was a tower of grace, kindness, dignity and strength who inspired generations of servant leaders. For the past three decades, she was the matria…
+2 Clancy DuBos: DA Williams ‘invited’ into lions’ den over post-conviction relief policy BY CLANCY DUBOS Sep 2, 2024 New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams has been “invited” to address a state Senate committee Thursday to explain his policy of helping people convicted years ago get reduced sentences b…
+2 Clancy DuBos: High turnout for Trump and Harris will have limited local impact in La. BY CLANCY DuBOS Aug 26, 2024 Now that the two presidential nominating conventions are over, leaders and operatives in both parties will begin the real work of ginning up turnout in key states across the country — and even…