On Oct. 21, a letter was written on behalf of business and community leaders to each member of the School Board of East Baton Rouge Parish. Our group believes that in the wake of the unfortunate resignation of former superintendent Leslie Brown, b…
Reading the front-page articles Wednesday concerning the Moore Park party and shootings leaves me to wonder just where we draw the line. Not long ago we were seeing all over the news people and groups calling for “defunding” the police. Let the pe…
According to IRS regulations, there are only two things that churches, when classified as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, may not do politically: A church may not use the organization to endorse one candidate over another, and a church ma…
I am always struck by the contradiction in conservative philosophy which advocates less government involvement unless it has to do with controlling women's bodies or LGBT rights.
Peter Carmichael's letter of Oct. 26 cites 2.2 million deaths projected by our experts. The 2.2 million figure was projected only if no actions were taken to stem the tide. It never was meant an estimate of probable deaths.
The direct strike at Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus restrictions didn't come through legislative action in the special session that Republican lawmakers called primarily to undermine the Democratic governor's rules.
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If Catholics in Cameron Parish are fretting over their collapsed churches, who can blame them?
Election Day is almost here. Poll numbers are flying. Just when you think there is a trend, a new poll comes along showing something different. It’s hard to know what’s really happening.
“I would transition away from the oil industry, yes,” former Vice President Joe Biden said in the closing minutes of the final presidential debate.
Cal Thomas' column accusing Joe Biden of rampant corruption while, over the years, he has spent much of his time devising excuses for Donald Trump's behavior, is a disservice to the readers of The Advocate.
Did you know you can protect local jobs that can’t be shipped out of state or overseas all from the comfort of your own home? It’s easy: Vote “No” on Amendment 5.
When serving in the Legislature, I met U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on several occasions. While I didn’t agree with her politics, I always found her to be earnest in her efforts and eager to do what she thought was best for the country.
The fact-checkers were out in force last week for the final debate between President Donald Trump and former senator and vice president Joe Biden.
Gov. John Bel Edwards spent a lot of time at his press conference Monday trashing the petition that state House Republicans had bestowed upon him, which attempts to temporarily revoke his ongoing coronavirus emergency order without his consent.
This November, an extreme and immoral anti-abortion amendment — Amendment 1 — will be on Louisiana’s state ballot, but many voters are unaware of how harmful this amendment would be to our community.
I was a professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas, from 1997-2001. My colleagues and I often remarked how lucky we were in our choice of restaurants. We were then a town of only 50,000, about 40 miles northwe…
In my position as parish administrator for Calcasieu Parish, I am heavily involved in hurricane preparation, response, recovery and mitigation activities, as are parish governments across the state.
There’s good news. The state of Louisiana has been heading in the right direction when it comes to COVID-19 progress. Compared to other Southern states, White House data shows that our state is No. 1.
It was the dinner hour on Sept. 18 when our phones blew up, pinging with cascading bulletins from distant children and extended family: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had just died. More to the point for our household, federal appellate Judge Amy Con…
Motherhood is not for the faint of heart. It is the toughest job there is. Your reward is not a golden statue or a medal to hang around your neck. Instead, it is the smile your child gives you and the loving embrace of their arms around your neck …
Do you think Louisiana’s teachers are paid too much? Do you pine for the not-so-distant past when Louisiana led the nation in cuts to higher education, and made up the difference by raising tuition on hardworking families? Do you believe the state…
I am a practicing OB-GYN physician in Louisiana, and I am on the front line in the battle over the proposed Amendment 1, which says there’s no right to an abortion or abortion funding in the Louisiana Constitution.
Even as Americans flock to early voting sites and fill out record numbers of mail ballots, it’s hard to escape the sense that this campaign season is bringing out the worst in our country, emphasizing not only deep political divisions but also sul…
The landmark criminal justice reform package of 2017 was heralded as a bipartisan initiative to reduce Louisiana’s nation-leading incarceration rate and to help those leaving prison successfully reenter society.
In March, we were asked to shelter in place so the curve of hospital admissions would be flattened. It worked.
I saw a letter in The Advocate demanding that Biden/Harris answer a question about “packing the Supreme Court.”
In better days, Saints fans could counted on to holler so loudly that the noise inside the Superdome would be equal to the sound of a military jet taking off from an aircraft carrier.
As the third legislative session of the year — the second called by the legislators themselves — sputtered to a close, a reasonable question is whether it was all worth it?
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Under normal circumstances, officials seeking reelection in just a few days would be happily reporting the glowing news of a strong rebound in the economy. But that’s not American reality today.
I wish to respond to Terrence W. Fitzmorris’s Oct. 9 letter in which he compared how Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln directed their respective second-term presidential campaigns. Did Lincoln possess the ethical standards suggested by Fitzmorris? …
As a doctor here in Louisiana, it’s my job to warn patients about health risks. That’s why I joined thousands of doctors and nurses from every state to sign the “Dear Patients” open letter to America’s patients.
For Nic Hunter, the young and relatively new mayor of Lake Charles, there is work aplenty. His city and the entire region of southwest Louisiana has been pummeled not just by one monster hurricane, but another making landfall only about 20 miles f…
Bob Marshall has found another culprit in his endless search for Louisiana's coastal loss. It took a while, and many articles to find the truth, but finally it has come out: Blame it on the Republicans!
When voters in the Pelican State hit the polls, the Love Life Amendment will be first on the ballot. This policy would ensure there is no right to abortion or the taxpayer funding of abortion in our state's Constitution — something thirteen states…
Nearly four years ago at election time, The Advocate printed my letter voicing puzzlement that from a population of over 300 million we were reduced to a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
I remember sitting in ninth-grade health class listening to giggles and comments from peers as the teacher inserted a VHS tape, “The Reproduction System and Human Development.” Within 20 minutes, the video covered exactly that, and the rest of the…
When voters in the Pelican State hit the polls, the Love Life Amendment will be first on the ballot. This policy would ensure there is no right to abortion or the taxpayer funding of abortion in our state's Constitution — something thirteen states…
Nearly four years ago at election time, The Advocate printed my letter voicing puzzlement that from a population of over 300 million we were reduced to a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
I remember sitting in ninth-grade health class listening to giggles and comments from peers as the teacher inserted a VHS tape, “The Reproduction System and Human Development.” Within 20 minutes, the video covered exactly that, and the rest of the…
Does State Sen. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, seriously think that we can all “come together” on Amendment 1?
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With President Donald Trump and Democratic Challenger Joe Biden meeting today in the final presidential debate, it’s a good time to take stock of the Commission of Presidential Debates, a nonprofit corporation that has outlived its usefulness.
William M. Faulkner’s bizarre letter of Oct. 15 begins with the statement that, “I just saw on TV that all of the recent hurricanes hitting the U.S. are President Donald Trump’s fault.”
I am a 17-year-old Black woman that goes to Edna Karr High School. With youth across the country getting more vocal about politics and social justice issues, the Black Lives Matter movement has highlighted why Black youth voices must be heard. We …
I just read Pat Shanley’s letter thinking of government as a business.
Michoud has a legacy of service, manufacturing vehicles that moved the nation forward. From the C-76 cargo planes during World War II and engines for the M4 Sherman and M46 Patton tanks during the Korean War, to the Saturn V Rocket in the 1960s an…
LSU's Board of Supervisors is, at last, moving toward finding a new leader for the LSU System.
