The only reason I'd go back to New Orleans is for closure, ... My life has gone through a dramatic change that I could not have done on my own. I was squinting before, but now my eyes are wide open. I'm blessed and grateful to be where I am today.

The point of entry for the Starbucks experience has been much more a social experience (in China) rather than competition between coffee and tea,

The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

The potential consolidation between the two towns in Orleans County may be the state's first step back to the future. This is the only way we can beat the economic death spiral gripping us all.