New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has been busy leading a recovery and review of the Hard Rock Hotel construction site on Canal Street since its tragic partial collapse on Oct. 12. She’s seen a lot of people, talked with a lot of city officials an…
Our ExxonMobil employees reading your Oct. 31 edition of The Advocate were disappointed to see a graphic providing a negative depiction of ExxonMobil’s environmental performance. We would like to correct the misperception and provide some factual …
Editor’s note: The following editorial has appeared on previous Veterans Days in “Our Views”:
As president of the United States, Donald Trump can go to pretty much any sporting event he wants to take in. We’re delighted that he chose The Game of The Century, version 2.0 — the epic contest between the LSU Tigers and our chief foes, the Crim…
The best novelists bring us important news long before it lands in the headlines, and that was certainly true of Ernest Gaines, the Oscar, Louisiana native who has died at 86.
Nobody goes to a Donald Trump rally to get a taste of civility. Nope, there’s never anything but red meat on the menu.
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This fall, without much fanfare, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library marked its 80th year. That might not typically be a landmark birthday for an institution, but it should be an occasion to remember the library’s impressive record of service.
Breaking up is hard to do, as the song goes, and thanks to a new lawsuit against organizers of the new city of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish, breaking up just got a little harder. We hope that drama is resolved soon, since lingering uncert…
On Nov. 16, New Orleans residents will have a chance to vote on three ballot questions affecting the city’s bottom line. Here are The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate’s recommendations:
If the rhetoric were not so nasty, this would be called the silly season of the campaign for governor of Louisiana.
New Orleanians have a reputation for clinging to the old and having some trouble adjusting to the new. But not everything old is worth saving — or missed when it’s outlived its usefulness. Put the dingy, outmoded terminal at Louis Armstrong New Or…
After Scott Lemoine went online to criticize the handling of a legal case involving the stepdaughter-in-law of a Livingston Parish judge, he ended up getting thrown in jail for cyberstalking.
If there’s been one regular refrain on the campaign trail this season, it’s been a call for more investment in early childhood education.
The “opportunity zone” tax breaks for wealthy investors, intended to help poorer neighborhoods, are all too often going to projects in downtowns, including New Orleans’ Warehouse District — a fact that has drawn national press attention.
If we’re honest, race is challenging for all of us. It comes into play at unexpected times and in unexpected ways, and sometimes things are covered, or tainted, by race when we don’t recognize it.
Louisiana’s 2019 gubernatorial campaign, so often nasty and dispiriting, has reached a new low with candidate Eddie Rispone’s snipe at the revered military academy at West Point and incumbent Gov. John Bel Edwards’ years of service as a soldier se…
Saturday’s Louisiana Book Festival is the 16th, and the event at the State Library in downtown Baton Rouge has become a big celebration of the written word, authors and art.
The Voodoo Music + Arts Experience has become an annual festival tradition in New Orleans since it started 21 years ago. Thousands show up from far and near to enjoy part, or all, of the three-day event at City Park. It’s come a long way since the…
There are a lot of reasons to like Bob Becker, but there are more reasons to thank him.
Josh Guillory’s belated decision, announced Monday, to debate his opponent for the Lafayette mayor-president’s position marks a half-step forward for responsible campaigning. His suggested timing of those debates, though, will keep early voters fr…
Editor’s note: The following editorial, with slight variations, has been published on previous Halloweens in “Our Views”:
In the children's book “Where’s Waldo,” young eyes are challenged to find the title character — clad in a distinctive red and white striped hat — hiding in plain sight among large groups of people.
Impeachment is important and not a laughing matter. But members of Congress seem to think it’s just another occasion for a political stunt.
Education is an important foundation for children. The classroom is the first place where young minds are introduced to subject matter expertise, relationships, friendships and structure outside of home. Nearly always we trust teachers to be respo…
From Cleveland to Baton Rouge might not be the traditional path for medical and academic superstars, but it’s working that way right now — and the movement is demonstrating to the entire state of Louisiana how economic development should be done.
Tabasco sauce is a fixture of Louisiana cuisine, but could it also be a critical part of America’s military readiness?
Though relatively modest in population, Louisiana yields more than its share of celebrated food and music. The same is true when it comes to literature, too.
Admittedly, anticipation for Friday’s home Pelicans opener diminished with news that Zion Williamson, this year’s No. 1 draft pick and the most-hyped rookie in a generation, wouldn’t be taking the floor at the Smoothie King Center.
Some might have perceived symbolism when the University of Louisiana System’s leadership approved the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's request Thursday to posthumously name Amédé Ardoin the Honorary Dean of Creole Music.
While there may be a short path to organization of a proposed city of St. George, it may also be longer than some expect. But whether short or long, it does not make sense to say that businesses should put off long-standing applications for invest…
Running a business can be tricky. Normally, you’ve got income and expenses, and there’s a balance between how much income you generate with what kind of expenses so you can make a profit. Usually, the most important piece of that puzzle depends on…
There were signposts along the road from Lafayette to New Orleans that might have convinced LAGCOE’s leadership that changing the biennial event’s location from the smaller city to the larger one would generate greater success.
New Orleans held its collective breath Sunday as it watched the sky over downtown, waiting to see if the dangerously precarious Hard Rock hotel site could be stabilized. For Mayor LaToya Cantrell and other city leaders, it was a hold-your-breath m…
LSU’s success on the football field wins a lot of exposure for Louisiana’s flagship school, and that’s usually a good thing.
Bob Mann isn’t the most likely person to offer a compliment to Ronald Reagan. A former political aide to several Democratic Louisiana politicians, including John Breaux and Kathleen Blanco, Mann has taught for years at LSU’s Manship School of Mass…
It’s not news that our roads are bumpy and bad. Just how bad?
A three-way runoff doesn’t happen every day, but for a few days it looked like that’s what the voters of Baton Rouge’s Senate District 16 faced.
Across the nation, once a little-noticed section of the 2017 tax cut was signed into law by President Donald Trump, state and local officials had to act to select Census tracts for the new tax breaks authorized for investors. The tax incentives we…
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 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.
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.
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.