Dillard University and Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans and Philander Smith College in Little Rock are historically black colleges and universities striving for excellence as they educate predominantly African American students. Colle…
Although Louisiana native and nationally acclaimed journalist Cokie Roberts died last month, her voice is back in the public conversation, thanks to an interview with her included in a new book, “The American Story.” What Roberts had to say is esp…
No one wants to lose a loved one, especially not as a result of a shooting. We see news reports about shootings involving anger, fights and jealousy. The reasons do not matter when someone we love is killed. Then there’s the senseless, incomprehen…
The excitement of advocates for a proposed new city of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish was obvious.
The governor’s race goes to a November runoff that is already featuring a feast of mutual criticism between frontrunning incumbent John Bel Edwards and challenger Eddie Rispone.
The collapse of the Hard Rock building under construction on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans is a horrible disaster, one leaving families of victims hurting and a city with lots of questions.
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Last year, Louisiana voters rejected the state’s nearly singular practice of allowing criminal convictions from divided juries. By a decisive 64-36 margin, they said that the rule, rooted in the Jim Crow past and an apparent factor in unequal outc…
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat experienced in Saturday’s primary election was only the beginning.
It’s a big Election Day in Louisiana, including key races across the state. Our recommendations to voters follow.
It’s a big Election Day in Louisiana, including key races across the state. Our recommendations to voters follow.
Long before President Donald Trump’s tirades against “fake news” littered his Twitter feed, populists like Democratic Govs. Huey Long, of Louisiana, and George C. Wallace, of Alabama, proved deft at turning crowd fury against reporters and photogr…
Burton Grindstaff might have been a fair enough newsman in his day in Opelousas. But come October, when temperatures plunge into the 80s and regional musicians trek toward Lafayette’s Girard Park, the former writer and editor is remembered for a l…
We live in an age of miracles, as evidenced by the news that the NFL has cast its eyes at a New Orleans Saints player and, breaking precedent, made the right call.
Not for the first time, President Donald Trump has upended American policy, this time with a reversal of long-standing commitments in Syria over the long-running civil war there.
As the former baseball coach and athletic director at LSU, Skip Bertman knows a thing or two about the importance of teamwork in gaining success. His voice is worth heeding on the issue of whether a new city of St. George should be incorporated in…
St. Augustine High School, a much-revered and respected academic and athletic institution, finds itself with a dilemma after a recent pregame video surfaced on social media showing someone leading the school's football team with a chant including …
America D. Lenox has had a tough time. She had a daughter while a junior at Southern University New Orleans. She was denied child care three times while working to read and study enough to do well and graduate, so she had to improvise to make it a…
The phrase “game-changer” is maybe becoming a bit of a cliché, but it is appropriate for a huge new federal grant to aid in the revitalization of Smiley Heights and Melrose East just north of Florida Boulevard in Baton Rouge.
As autumn arrives, patrons of the Baton Rouge Zoo can look forward to cooler weekends for visiting one of the city’s longtime attractions. It’s a prime chance to escape the bustle of everyday life for a while and live, if only briefly, in the moment.
The Saints are still playing, and they are doing well enough that we see a Super Bowl in their future.
As the New Orleans Saints face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this weekend, it will be hard to match the drama of last week’s game against Dallas.
Many contentious issues divide the three leading candidates for governor, but we’re glad to hear that there is agreement on the health of working people in low-wage jobs in the state.
For a while, Louisiana’s business leaders were worried about a “pause” in the job-creating industrial construction sector. Now, as economist Loren Scott and his colleagues report, the pause appears to be over as billions in new petrochemical manuf…
As the Oct. 12 election for governor and Legislature draws nearer, the people of Louisiana might have the inclination to say, borrowing from a political phrase of the 1980s, where’s the beef?
I am studying to become an engineer, and as an engineer, I am taught to solve problems as effectively and efficiently as possible. This means addressing the root cause of the problem rather than its symptoms, using innovation to your advantage, an…
Our Views: NFL shows its priorities by giving Saints' Demario Davis a fine for 'Man of God' headband
A rich NFL team owner is charged with soliciting prostitution, and a player for another NFL team wears a headband proclaiming his religious faith.
When you are at the center of one of the world’s great petrochemical centers, there are always going to be benefits and liabilities. Obviously, the benefits are high-paying jobs in technical fields and the many economic spinoffs of those jobs. A d…
The news of a bigger state budget surplus shouldn’t be a political flashpoint, though it should prompt some reflection on the underlying dynamics of the state’s tax code.
“Living with water” has become a catchphrase in New Orleans, where crumbling infrastructure and increasingly frequent intense weather have made flooded streets and buildings all too common. Another culprit is the pavement that, here as in other po…
For evidence that truth can be at least as compelling as fiction, there’s no better example than the many books Tulane university professor Richard Campanella has written about the geography, history, architecture and culture of Louisiana.
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Two days after the Emmy awards, an annual ceremony to mark the year’s most arresting television, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that the House would begin a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are a major reason for an economic disaster that did not happen.
Mandeville Police Capt. Vincent “Vinny” Liberto was a Marine Corps veteran and the father of children who had also been in the Marines, so he knew the dangers of serving in the armed forces.
We continue to present our views on constitutional amendments before the voters Oct. 12.
One of the problems with Louisiana government is the long and unwieldy state constitution, requiring statewide votes on all sorts of issues.
Louisiana doesn’t enjoy a good reputation for forward-thinking public policy.
One of Louisiana’s real accomplishments is its effort to stop being one of the world’s leading jailers for a jurisdiction its size. That initiative, bipartisan and difficult to achieve legislatively, has earned admiration from the White House — ev…
Maybe it’s difficult in the America of 2019 to remember that this country has been through seasons of political convulsions and deep divisions before.
As another weekend of football arrives in south Louisiana, we’ll be reminded once again that a big part of the hustle on game day takes place off the gridiron — in the grocery stores where fans are stocking up on snacks and libations.
The widespread flooding in Houston caused by a Tropical Storm Imelda is a potent reminded that water, not wind, can be the chief driver of destruction in this part of the world during hurricane season.
Americans who were teenagers during the Iranian hostage crisis of the Jimmy Carter administration are in their fifties now, including some who are grandparents. That’s a vivid reminder of the enduring challenge the United States has had in its dea…
There are plenty of people who run their businesses and do good work on the side. Michael O. Smith has a different approach.
This year’s recently announced Golden Deeds honoree, the recipient of an award meant to recognize outstanding voluntarism in the Baton Rouge area, is a representative of a great generation who helped to change Louisiana in many ways.
As a longtime politics correspondent for National Public Radio, Mara Liasson is familiar with the phenomenon of confirmation bias, in which news consumers sample only the information that underscores what they already believe.
As the daughter of legendary New Orleans lawmakers Hale and Lindy Boggs, Cokie Roberts had a front seat at history in the making.
The ancient Romans were a tough breed, but they exempted from war service soldiers who had injured their thumbs since the warriors could no longer grasp their weapons.
Summer temps in Louisiana can be brutal, but they’re the price we pay for typically mild winters, as the great showman P.T. Barnum, the subject of a new biography by Robert Wilson, seemed to understand.
If there is one decision from the eight years of former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tenure that clearly stood out as penny-wise and pound-foolish, it was that of the governor and Republican-led Legislature to oppose expansion of the Medicaid insurance pro…
Public libraries are for everyone, but they can be especially pivotal in kids’ lives. Libraries are where children, regardless of their families’ means, can follow their interests and imaginations wherever they lead and find the resources to help …
The framers of the Bill of Rights thought the guarantees of free speech and assembly, the ability to petition the government and the existence of a free press so vital that they enumerated them in the nation’s very first constitutional amendment. …