When New Orleans was doused with a sudden deluge on Aug. 5, the inadequate response of the drainage pumps was a focus of public ire.

Imagine a law requiring your doctor to give you misleading information about the health risks of a medical procedure. In Louisiana, this is a reality. State law requires physicians to give women seeking abortions inaccurate information about the d…

The phrase "brother-in-law deal" wasn't intended as a substitute for the Public Bid Law, but try explaining that to the insider-dealers of the Louisiana Department of Corrections.

After fighting for weeks to hide the details of a probe into possible wrongdoing by one of its faculty members, Southern University has finally released the documents, which call into question the actions of law professor Dorothy Jackson.

The hurricane gods are capricious, as we know from long and brutal experience, but it was a blessing when Louisiana was so lightly touched by the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

New Orleans gets its power mostly from outside the city limits. That doesn’t include some self-generated power, including a small solar unit that is a positive harbinger of more renewable energy down the road.

In 2005, America and the world were stunned by the impact of Hurricane Katrina. One of America's great cities flooded when the levees broke.

On today’s 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the national nightmare of that devastating storm now has a grim sequel.

There might be competition for the title of expert in phony numbers at the State Capitol, but a contender would be Jim Fannin, of Jonesboro.

While it is no fault of the New York-born president of the United States that he might not be able to locate the Louisiana city of Jennings on the map, he knows where New Orleans is, and it is worth a visit for him as he or his underlings contempl…

At a small city park in the Chattanooga, Tennessee, suburb of Cleveland, a crowd of Americans from around the country clapped on Monday afternoon as the sky went dark. Variations of that scene were repeated across America as people cheered the sol…

In promoting the practice of sound legal strategy to its students, a law school should lead by example. But in forcing journalists to sue them in order to get basic information about the workings of a public institution, officials in charge of the…

For years, public-private developments for affordable housing in New Orleans were resisted as "privatization" of the old housing complexes, many of them devastated after the levees broke during the onset of Hurricane Katrina.

In its latest strategic plan, the Southern University Law Center mentions its ambition “to train its students to assume important positions of responsibility and leadership in our society.”

Why have a state credit card with your name on it? You can, if you are in the Cain family business, just tell employees of the Corrections Department to charge stuff for you.

The corporate incentives and tax breaks at the State Capitol during former Gov. Bobby Jindal's tenure had a real cost, in putting at risk the lives of Louisiana's most vulnerable children.

The state’s top school board is planning a closed-door discussion on the contract of state Education Superintendent John White.

The carnage in Charlottesville, Virginia, as protesters clashed over the planned removal of a Confederate statue resonated deeply in Louisiana, which has faced its own controversies over Confederate monuments.

As another summer reading season begins to recede, one thing seems clear. Despite its name, “The Gulf,” a new history of the Gulf of Mexico by Jack E. Davis, wasn’t an ideal book for the beach.

This weekend’s anniversary of 2016 flood is worthy of observance, although not as a piece of settled history. The flood, which did most of its damage on Aug. 13, 2016, isn’t simply a past event, but an ongoing challenge for the south Louisiana fam…

With an eye toward one of his winning issues in the last campaign, President Donald Trump is now seeking to reopen the national debate over immigration.

Last weekend, as heavy rains flooded major parts of New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu was attending a conference on national security at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. Perhaps there are worse things than a mayor of a major city contemplating, as…

Summer reading programs at public libraries throughout Louisiana are wrapping up, an initiative promoted statewide this year with the slogan, “Build A Better World.”

When Steve Carter called for a show of hands on the question, "Who likes paying taxes?," the Baton Rouge state representative got no takers.