In reading Stephanie Grace’s column of Sept. 16, I was struck by two things she wrote.
With an active hurricane season that’s forced multi-generations of family members under one roof; much of the state now in Phase 3 of re-opening; and the start of school and high school and college athletics, having flu and COVID-19 circulating at…
Storm after storm after storm after…
Sally was a shoo shoo, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us and Gov. John Bel Edwards says we are ready for coronavirus Phase 3.
If it seems as if Louisiana’s been talking about how to make the fall elections both safe and secure forever, that may be because time definitely does not fly in the midst of a pandemic. More likely it’s because officials here have been among the …
As we reopen the economy more in Louisiana, let’s do more for good business.
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It was one of those moments that in hindsight Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter wishes he would have knocked on wood and spit three times as he said on Aug. 19: “We’ll be in decent in shape unless a hurricane hits us.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was small in stature, but she’ll be remembered as a towering figure in the country’s long struggle to live up to its founding principle of equality under the law.
In the midst of extraordinary economic uncertainty, we can count on one thing: a pithy and quotable phrase from Loren Scott.
Be in that number to shape the future of Louisiana! You only have until the extended Sept. 30 deadline to be counted in the U.S. census and it is important to the future of our state that you are.
This newspapers’ Sunday op-ed about LSU’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, especially its headline, “Universities, though not LSU, are taking deep dives to find systemic racism,” did not fully describe the extensive work LSU is doing to make…
Louisiana has a good plan on the table for how to conduct one of the biggest elections in years, and it’s the plan that a federal judge ordered the state to adopt, over the objections of Republican legislators.
Twelve hours bumper to bumper that crawled like a dazed snake, I crept out of New Orleans to Lafayette. I rode it safe from Katrina.
My brother and I own a clothing store on Canal Street. We are proud New Orleanians.
Two quotes, both involving restaurants, show how much farther we have to go with coronavirus.
The president betrays the nation by hiding the truth. What's on the top of Page 1? Not one but two stories about football.
I'll not watch another NFL game on TV until they return to being athletes with a life and personal feelings that they keep to themselves. If these spoiled millionaires can't appreciate that what makes Americas great is also what makes our sports g…
President Donald Trump's indoor pep rally in Nevada, without masks or social distancing, evokes “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe.
This hurricane season is extremely active. Sally threatened us and now is dropping flooding rain on Alabama and Florida.
The first four historic coronavirus relief bills totaled about $3 trillion. The United States must borrow the funds which didn’t seem to bother Congress. They were unified trying to invigorate the economy depressed by coronavirus closures, layoffs…
While in Louisiana we can hardly say that we dodged a bullet from Hurricane Sally, as potentially damaging rains remain very possible, it’s certain that the move of the latest storm to threaten our coast was welcome here, if unwelcome to our neigh…
On the Sept. 10 opinion page of this newspaper was a letter castigating the Rev. Louis Arceneaux for his support of Joe Biden. The items presented in this letter went from outright fabrications to just being wrong.
Infrastructure is a critical aspect of everyday life. It supports our transportation system and stimulates economic growth for the country. At the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, we are committed to enhancing the quality of…
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Louisiana, this is our chance.
In response to Will Sutton’s column, I received a census notification. All of my family completed theirs on the internet but could have completed the form and returned by mail, postage paid.
Your “Our Views” opinion on Sept. 6 regarding Democrats wanting to kill the oil industry wreaks of fearmongering and an extremist political viewpoint.
It seems that football tailgaters are upset they can't tailgate. All they have to do is put on their favorite jersey, shirt, apron, hat, etc. Gather all your supplies, tent, cooker, ice chest, trailer, with all the goodies and set up somewhere in …
I am writing to make readers aware of a situation I encountered while mailing ballots for two recent elections in Orleans Parish. In both elections, the mailing envelope has at the top right-hand corner where you would affix the stamp this informa…
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Before there was the internet, there was baseball, and that meant Harry Caray.
As a retired National Weather Service meteorologist, I was surprised by a quote on Hurricane Laura’s forecasts in Tuesday’s lead article. Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services spokesperson Catherine Heitman was quoted as saying, “Bu…
My thoughts range from the pandemic (mask/no mask), to Black Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter, conservative/liberal, Red state/Blue state, straight/gay, pro-life/pro-choice, etc., etc.
Every business in the country has been impacted by COVID-19 in one way or another. But few sectors have been as hard hit, or face a longer road to recovery, than the travel agency industry. According to the American Society of Travel Advisors, wit…
Louisiana shouldn't have needed a reminder about the fragility of its public water supply, with half the state's water systems operating off structures that are more 50 years old and a national report card regularly declaring the state's maintenan…
My thoughts range from the pandemic (mask/no mask), to Black Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter, conservative/liberal, Red state/Blue state, straight/gay, pro-life/pro-choice, etc., etc.
Every business in the country has been impacted by COVID-19 in one way or another. But few sectors have been as hard hit, or face a longer road to recovery, than the travel agency industry. According to the American Society of Travel Advisors, wit…
Louisiana shouldn't have needed a reminder about the fragility of its public water supply, with half the state's water systems operating off structures that are more 50 years old and a national report card regularly declaring the state's maintenan…
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, sports teams suspended activities as the nation coped with its shock and grief.
Whether fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico are a good idea is a question that evokes strong opinions.
I’m quite concerned about what’s about to happen this fall. I’ve never played professional, college or high school football, but I like the sport — and I’m afraid.
Some racism is easy to identify: riots at Ole Miss; George Wallace blocking the door at the University of Alabama; torchlight parades and death at the University of Virginia.
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If you are a regular reader of this column, you will remember how I gushed over my one-time neighbor Mary Lee Pinckney. When I was a youngster she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, for sure in the 900 block of Howard Street.
Pope Francis calls gossip a plague worse than COVID-19.
Garey Forster wrote that Louisiana might benefit by eliminating its personal income tax. He reported that Louisiana had lost population (and jobs) in recent years and asserted that Louisiana’s net out-migration was due to a weak economy.