Tighter rules set for final debate Thursday on Confederate monuments in New Orleans
ANDREW VANACORE
Dec. 14, 2015; 7:16 p.m.
New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams is apparently not ready to face another four-hour free-for-all over the fate of the city’s contested monuments to Confederate leaders and a Reconstruction-era uprising.
After six months of impassioned public debate about the four statues in question, the council is scheduled to vote Thursday on an ordinance that would declare each of them a public nuisance and allow their removal to a warehouse.
After a long, raucous public hearing on the issue last week — during which two people were ejected from the council chamber — Williams promulgated special rules of conduct Monday for the public comment period that will precede the vote.
Speakers will get two minutes each to address the council, which is typical. But debate will be cut off after an hour, with each side given 30 minutes, Williams said. And no one will be allowed to cede the balance of their time to another speaker, which is ordinarily allowed ...
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Stacy Head is no surprise. She's the one who got in a drunken brawl at Jazz Fest a few years ago. 
But LaToya?! She's an African American community activist who got her start after Katrina by leading the neighborhood association in the hard-hit Broadmoor neighborhood. 
is she doing opposing this?
And what about street names? I'm thinking specifically of Jefferson Davis Parkway in Mid-City, which progressives long ago unofficially renamed "Angela Davis Parkway". 
