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While manufacturing is slowing down in some areas across the country, Louisiana’s manufacturing sector is showing signs of growth. It’s already responsible for 19.6% of the state’s GDP and employs 6.8% of the workforce, with chemicals, petroleum a…
The League of Women Voters of Louisiana is taking part in “People Powered Fair Maps,” a national campaign on redistricting sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS). All fifty states plus Washington, D.C., are participat…
Recently, the Louisiana Bankers Association decried "unfair" advantages they believe credit unions have. I'm a customer of both a credit union and a private bank. Here is my experience.
The contentious vote for House speaker started Louisiana's new legislative term with yet another controversy, creating waves across the state's political landscape and seeming destined to shape a new relationship between the House and the governor.
To say that Louisiana is willing to accept refugees from countries where they faced persecution is not exactly news. It always has, and generations of people who’ve fled hardship have found new homes here, including the Acadians from Canada.
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I have a cousin, Anders, who runs a dairy with his iPhone.
Louisiana cops continue to arrest people for breaking laws ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards’ reelection last fall launched some fairly predictable chatter among those who live and breathe politics, centering not on the next four years but on what comes after. A Democrat who just beat a Republican in a state Presiden…
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On Monday, many will be celebrating another holiday commemorating the incredible but short life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Creativity and emotional intelligence (personal and social competence) have now long been the two most important individual attributes sought by all corporate business organizations, for obvious reasons. Creativity drives innovation and without in…
In response to Barry Erwin's contention that Louisiana schools have been better under John White, I respectfully disagree.
Elizabeth Warren is right to call for a wealth tax! Louisianans work hard and pay their taxes, but that taxation system is inherently unfair.
During games at Tiger Stadium, the fans delight in listening to Garth Brooks’ 1993 hit “Callin’ Baton Rouge.”
There’s a common motivation behind many of the criminal justice reforms that have been enacted in recent years — that people who’ve had past brushes with the law, particularly involving nonviolent offenses, deserve a second chance.
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The warm ovation given to President Donald Trump and the first lady in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Monday night had one timely political lesson: In Louisiana, and probably a lot of other places, impeachment is stupid.
With the holidays behind us, and here in the early days of the Mardi Gras season, I have always thought that this is the time of year to catch my breath and collect my thoughts — to take time to appreciate this great city and to focus on how the p…
I would like to applaud the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board for prohibiting the ceremonial release of helium-filled balloons as well as Richard Condrey's letter of support in the Dec. 21 opinion section of the newspaper.
The recent article by Barry Erwin, “Let's keep school reform going,” was both excellent and well-timed. However, he missed one very important point, probably because it is one of the least popular issues: taxes!
When I had my first baby in 2018, it was after at least a dozen visits with my obstetrician over the course of many months. My OB walked me through every stage of my baby’s development, every uncomfortable and worrisome pregnancy symptom, and ever…
Lock him up? For that?
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser took a gamble and he guessed wrong.
Our Views: Acadiana's home-grown candidates for sainthood made profound impacts in their communities
The Cause for Canonization initiated in Lafayette on Saturday places that century-old Catholic diocese in new territory.
The political slang is a new “super,” when you’re talking about what is more fully described as the search for a new superintendent of East Baton Rouge Parish schools.
I am writing to give early kudos to everyone's hero, Steve Gleason, who was given the Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday, the first NFL player ever — not long before the national recognition Monday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who recei…
Political pundits predict gridlock in Louisiana for the next four years. What a bleak forecast for our struggling state! The people of Louisiana deserve better.
I agree with Dan Fagan and his buddies in his Sunday column that the first way to improve the state is to "cut government spending instead of raising billions in new taxes."
You missed something very interesting in the Sunday article, “Last of the Long Family Leaving Office,” on Page 17A. In your recounting of Long family officeholders, you did not mention that Huey Long's wife, Rose McConnell Long, served as a U.S. s…
What does it mean to love and protect all the children in our community?
The updated trade agreement with Mexico and Canada is well on its way to ratification in the U.S. Senate.
If Gov. John Bel Edwards and other reelected statewide officials deserve congratulations on beginning a new term, the big news was made earlier on the inaugural Monday by the tight voting for speaker of the House.
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Steve Gleason is a true Louisiana hero. Ever since the day Steve joined his New Orleans Saints teammates in their return to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, he has been a uniting force in Louisiana.
Your headline in Sunday's edition did no credit to your position as the state's premier newspaper. What did you hope to achieve with that gratuitous slap at our flagship university, comparing academic levels with Clemson?
Have you heard anything recently about the immigrants at the borders? It is scary to think that they are being held in detention centers around the country and have no friendly entity watching over them.
I don’t do “Hail Marys” and I don’t do “stunts.” The information in Stephanie Grace’s Jan. 8 column cannot be verified. The budget for the deputy clerks has not been “increased.” The 75 positions filled in 2019 will be the same 75 positions filled…
In the months leading up to his first swearing-in four years ago, John Bel Edwards overplayed his hand.
Steve Gleason is a true Louisiana hero. Ever since the day Steve joined his New Orleans Saints teammates in their return to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, he has been a uniting force in Louisiana.
Your headline in Sunday's edition did no credit to your position as the state's premier newspaper. What did you hope to achieve with that gratuitous slap at our flagship university, comparing academic levels with Clemson?
Have you heard anything recently about the immigrants at the borders? It is scary to think that they are being held in detention centers around the country and have no friendly entity watching over them.
I don’t do “Hail Marys” and I don’t do “stunts.” The information in Stephanie Grace’s Jan. 8 column cannot be verified. The budget for the deputy clerks has not been “increased.” The 75 positions filled in 2019 will be the same 75 positions filled…
Every politician faces an internal struggle between the desire for power and remaining faithful to the agenda voters elected them to carry out. Gonzales Republican Clay Schexnayder seems to have fallen prey to the tempting delicacy of power. He is…
How great it was to see LSU competing for the national football championship last night, the fourth time in this decade the Tigers have appeared in the big game in New Orleans.
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As a native New Orleanian, I am saddened, angered and worried by the rising felonies, misdemeanors and infractions in our city. It seems to me that our city leaders and our citizens are simply adapting to the new normal.
Climate change seems so overwhelming that most of us seem incapable of participating in a solution other than pointing a finger at a politician, political party, industry, or some other convenient scapegoat. Having a target for our finger-pointing…
Gregory Tilton wrote a thought-provoking letter about the arbitrariness of officiating and the impact of luck on NFL games.
Re: Fountainbleau park land grab: Our state parks are not perks nor plums for politicians to trade with their cohorts and cronies for under the table quid pro quo.