Note also that the incoming mayor of New Orleans and the outgoing mayor of New Orleans are scheduled to speak at a similar event this week. (Also Eric Adams will be there)

It's much simpler than that. I just don't think any politician... especially not a mayor... should be addressed in a way that sets them above normal people. Anything I can do to reject a formality that reinforces hierarchies, I am going to do that.

It really is musical chairs

I think it is good and efficient that we are streamlining our cash strapped government by having two police chiefs

LOL "best and brightest" indeed

Amazing that we are so bereft of cultural and institutional memory that our elite leaders have taken to using this phrase unironically.