Without President Donald Trump on the ballot, are historic levels of voter turnout a memory?
I've heard and read negative material regarding President Donald Trump on television and in the newspaper. The media is still against him no matter what he does. That’s plain to see.
Article III of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 is a sacred pillar: taxes can only be considered in legislative sessions in odd-numbered years.
During the annual Medicare enrollment period, Medicare advantage plans and other Medicare derivatives are saturating the media, advertising their added benefits.
Philadelphia, the city of the Declaration of Independence, is now the city of socialism and corruption along with the rest of the state of Pennsylvania.
It took weeks as New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the New Orleans Saints organizations looked at the same coronavirus data and came to different conclusions about fans returning to the Superdome. Finally, after a hollow threat to move home ga…
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There’s no way to avoid the subject, so Jason Williams answers the elephant-in-the-room question directly.
I grew up in the French Quarter and live here still.
I am a lifelong New Orleans resident, Lusher Charter School graduate and the proud mom of a six-month-old boy and a two-year-old girl. My son was born as COVID-19 hit, and it’s been hard.
In the Readers' View column Thanksgiving Day, Ravi Sarojanam suggested our utility companies start using stronger, longer-lasting utility poles than the wooden ones that routinely blow down during storms, causing major power outages and costing a …
As a two-time voter for Donald Trump, I'm going to take my relative obscurity (and a very low chance that the president will attack me on Twitter), use it to my advantage, and state: "Mr. President, it's over. Time to concede."
Concerning Michael Gerson’s commentary on Nov. 17, President Donald Trump may or may not have been elected for his character, but he was elected on his views concerning our country. They will never be a time when everyone will agree with the presi…
It’s hard to hold people accountable when they can’t be confronted with the consequences of the harm they cause. That’s one of the most frustrating aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Behavior that puts other people at risk and rhetoric that encoura…
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The economic damage from coronavirus and the government restrictions keeps piling up, with sad news like that from Wayne Baquet Sr. He has decided to retire and he will not reopen Li’l Dizzy’s Café.
I started Wilcox Academy in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina to provide high-quality care for the predominantly African American children of the 7th Ward community as we rebuilt. Wilcox Academy is now rated as a highly proficient quality early childho…
Bill Hammack writes that "it is certain the leadership of the library wants Proposition 2 to pass.” I am curious as to the source of his "certainty."
Caregivers of a loved one with Alzheimer’s have been doubly challenged with the COVID-19 conditions and restrictions.
The Advocate continues to belabor the failure of integration of East Baton Rouge Parish public schools. Your article Sunday implies racist White parents are to blame.
The winter season is upon us along with the holidays that we have enjoyed with family and friends for years.
I became a writer because of my public library. As a kid, I solved mysteries with Encyclopedia Brown, went on “science adventures” with Rick Brant and read every word Beverly Cleary wrote about Henry Huggins and his friends Beezus and Ramona. No l…
I read with interest the piece by Emily Woodruff, “Report: La. next-to-last in social justice.”
Gov. John Bel Edwards can heap on coronavirus restrictions, telling Louisiana residents not to gather in groups and to practice behavior that puts fewer people at risk of the COVID-19 disease. But he can't be in every business, home and holiday pa…
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Any other year, we’d be winding down the year, heading into Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa and the new year with hurricane season behind us.
Edward Pratt can't seem to write a column without scolding and abusing those of us who don't like to wear masks to combat COVID-19. To him, the issue is simple: If you are a decent person who cares about your fellow Americans, you will wear a mask…
In 2020, you don’t have to look far to find a reason for concern. This year has brought hardships to all of us like no other — a pandemic, social unrest over racial injustice, tropical storms, hurricanes, and fires.
Gov. John Bel Edwards planned to serve mustard greens grown in his garden but described this year’s Thanksgiving as far different than last year’s.
It will take years to unwind the toxic consequences of Louisiana’s racist criminal law which allowed courts to convict defendants even if jurors could not agree whether they were guilty.
As Louisiana endures another uptick with COVID-19 virus dangers, we’re faced with some obvious and not-very-pleasant choices.
It takes courage to disagree with any pope. Pope Francis says that a man who lies with a man in a civil union is fine with him; they just can't get married in the Catholic Church.
Opinions on abortion hit the headlines daily but why not consider a simple solution that would make the abortion argument irrelevant?
Finally, an intelligent, well-crafted letter from a conservative more interested in principles than party or profits. I thank Dennis C. Foltz for his Nov. 20 letter published in The Advocate. We are similar in backgrounds, except I registered as a…
Working families are facing a huge dilemma spanning multiple generations due to the COVID-19 epidemic: accessing quality child care.
It’s always great to celebrate Louisiana natives who achieve beyond most people’s wildest dreams. It’s even more gratifying to do so when the whole world is watching.
Every day volunteers go to a little pink house in Uptown New Orleans to do life-saving work.
I am an evangelical who happens to be White. I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. According to recent expressions of "opinions" in your newspaper, I am ignorant, anti-intellectual, racist — even a White supremacist. There are likely some Tru…
Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, celebration, food and football — but this year, not so much. Many people heeded urgent warnings about family gatherings and avoiding COVID-19 infections. People are dying. The hospitals are full. Families were…
Sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s 2020, almost 2021, yet many governments haven’t changed their operations or thinking since fax machines or maybe public emails. Yet today, there’s instant communications through the internet.
I am an evangelical who happens to be White. I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. According to recent expressions of "opinions" in your newspaper, I am ignorant, anti-intellectual, racist — even a White supremacist. There are likely some Tru…
Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, celebration, food and football — but this year, not so much. Many people heeded urgent warnings about family gatherings and avoiding COVID-19 infections. People are dying. The hospitals are full. Families were…
Sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s 2020, almost 2021, yet many governments haven’t changed their operations or thinking since fax machines or maybe public emails. Yet today, there’s instant communications through the internet.
Why the difference in attempting to certify today’s presidential election compared to the 2000 Bush vs. Gore presidential election?
Editor's note: This editorial, in modified form, has appeared on previous Thanksgivings in The Advocate:
It was the first week of June and we were getting excited because we had moved from a COVID-19 stay-at-home order to Phase 1 and we were moving into Phase 2.
I am beyond upset to read about Joe Biden's "spiritual advisers" in this morning's paper.
With no foreseeable end to the COVID-19 crisis before school concludes this coming May, it is important that educators, parents and state leaders start to look to the future for how Louisiana can provide access to a holistic, safe and online learn…
Truly, “we just couldn’t believe it” (in the article by Katy Reckdahl) about the number of utility poles that were down after Hurricane Zeta raced through metropolitan New Orleans. And then to see the utility crew frantically trying to fix them wi…
Dr. Christopher Thomas and many of his colleagues who work in COVID-19 units are tired in ways that mere sleep cannot cure.
Anyone looking for signs that Washington-style politics have filtered down to Louisiana can usually just take a gander at the Louisiana Legislature’s growing partisanship, or at Attorney General Jeff Landry’s ideological crusade of the moment.
The AP news article in The Advocate’s Nov. 11 edition, “GOP lets Trump fight election for weeks despite Biden’s win,” is yet another example of the AP’s anti-Trump biased news reporting.