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City Council’s vote on drone program violated state law, demand letter states
By: Joshua Rosenberg. June 10, 2026 NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans City Council’s budget amendment vote on drones in April violated Louisiana’s Open Meeting Law, a legal advocacy group said in a demand letter dated Tuesday. The April 16th vote, held by the City Council’s French…
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New Orleans Anti-Zionist Seder served at capacity
By: Joshua Rosenberg. April 29,2026. NEW ORLEANS — If there were ever a single gauge (there’s not) with which to measure Jewish New Orleanians’ interest in Anti-Zionist spaces, then the RSVP list for Jewish Voice for Peace’s annual Seder might be it. This year, they had to…
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Chevron Out campaign celebrated at, kicked out of French Quarter Festival
Supporters were also targeted. By: Joshua Rosenberg. April 21, 2026 NEW ORLEANS — The Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest coalition received an overwhelmingly warm reception from the people gathered at the Willow Dispensary Stage at French Quarter Festival (FQF) on Saturday evening before they were promptly…
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In narrow vote, City Council approves ‘drone as first responder’ budget item
The meeting’s public comment period was limited to 10 minutes. By Joshua Rosenberg. April 16, 2026 NEW ORLEANS — In a 4 to 3 vote, the New Orleans City Council French Quarter Economic Development District approved a budget item on Thursday that would allocate $250,000 to…
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Public health concerns persist in Roseland as residents demand more of their gov’t
“This is the worst I have ever seen.” By: Joshua Rosenberg. April 6, 2026 ROSELAND, La. — It’s been eight months since a massive explosion took place at Smitty’s Supply Inc. in Roseland, La., and residents are deeply upset with the pace of clean-up – or the…
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New Orleans kills $5.4M grant meant for recycling
By: Joshua Rosenberg. April 1, 2026 The city of New Orleans killed a $5.4 million grant meant for recycling on Tuesday. At least one powerful, politically well-connected force had been angling for its demise. A Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling for Communities (SWIFR) grant was originally…
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‘Management District’ Approves Drone Program In French Quarter
By Joshua Rosenberg. March 30, 2026. NEW ORLEANS — The French Quarter Management District (FQMD), a nonelected, state-created body, voted Monday to approve a budget amendment that would allow the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) to purchase a drone that would operate in the French Quarter.…
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Living large in DC and Miami: Landry PAC spends on dining and luggage in East Coast cities
Governor Jeff Landry’s political action committee spent campaign money this year on high-end luggage and dining in two of our country’s elite cities: Miami and Washington D.C, according to reports released Monday by the PAC: CAJUN PAC II. One report listed $4,170.09 as a “donor gift…
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The Palestine to New Orleans Pipeline: Drones
Opinion The next installment of the Palestine to New Orleans pipeline is here, ladies and gentlemen. And it’s the form of drones. The French Quarter Management District (FQMD) voted last week to finance one $250,000 Skydio drone and docking station that the NOPD would be able…
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French Quarter Festival Drops Chevron as Title Sponsor
By: Joshua Rosenberg. February 20, 2026 The French Quarter Festival (FQF), an annual music festival held in New Orleans’ French Quarter, has dropped Chevron as its “Title Sponsor,” downgrading it instead to its list of “Star Sponsors.” The festival had been under pressure to drop Chevron…
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The Silence that protects Walter Isaacson
By Joshua Rosenberg, Frebruary 7th, 2026 Since The Rosenberg Brief was the first outlet to report on Walter Isaacson’s being named in the Epstein Files, there’s been radio silence: both from the local and national media and from the institutions to which he belongs. The Tulane…
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Louisiana State Police cost records “fully exempt” from public disclosure, gov’t maintains
By Joshua Rosenberg, February 6, 2026 Travel cost records for the Louisiana State Police unit, who are assigned to protect the governor, are “fully exempt” from public disclosure, even as Governor Jeff Landry jet sets around the country and beyond. The Louisiana State Police Protective Services…
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Prominent Tulane Professor Associated with popular Book Festival mentioned in “Epstein Files”
Photo pulled from Wikimedia By: Joshua Rosenberg, February 2nd, 2026 NEW ORLEANS — Walter Isaacson, the Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values at Tulane University, was mentioned in the so-called Epstein Files, among other things, as having been invited to a party at which…