As he’ll be the first to tell you, Joe Biden is not a brie-and-white wine kind of guy. He drinks beer.
Hurricane Ida was among the most powerful storms ever to make landfall in Louisiana, and certainly the most destructive to take direct aim at one of the state’s key resources: its fisheries.
We’re about to have some new neighbors, and we should welcome them.
When you literally don’t have a roof over your head because it was blown off by Hurricane Ida, you won’t have very much patience with a Congress that can’t act on basic disaster aid.
With only two, Louisiana can’t afford to lose one of its headquarters forces in the Fortune 500 list of major U.S. companies.
Well, that didn’t work.
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Would you go to a hospital where doctors or nurses or employees of any kind were not vaccinated against measles or chickenpox or a host of other diseases commonly prevented by vaccines?
An insurance policy is a contract. The customer pays a premium, and in exchange, the insurance company provides coverage that’s spelled out in detail in a written agreement. That’s how things are supposed to work, anyway.
When an epic hurricane knocks out power to a whole city on the eve of an election, voters will want answers fast.
After the big hurricane and the big power outage and the big gasoline shortage and big piles of trash, many Louisianans decided to leave for a while.
At LSU, it was get with the program or get out.
We don’t like Louisiana being known nationally as a place where people are regularly assaulted or killed under any circumstance, but certainly not by our own Louisiana State Police. Led by The Associated Press, national media has focused on the ca…
If ever a New Englander earned a good old-fashioned New Orleans send-off, it’s George Wein.
All things considered, New Orleans has been leading with Hurricane Ida recovery on several fronts, not the least of which was power restoration. But when it comes to trash, the city is failing badly.
A darker side of Louisiana’s joie de vivre society is obesity, although it is not only étouffée or jambalaya that contribute to the problem.
FEMA isn’t usually known for its flexibility, so it has been a pleasant surprise to see the agency make a temporary change in its rules for reimbursing people who purchase generators or chain saws.
There were few harsher and more difficult environments in the early 1940s than Papua/New Guinea near Australia, but Lawrence Brooks toiled there for his country.
In 2005, and rightly so, the world was horrified when the federally built levees failed and metropolitan New Orleans was flooded. Less recognized was Hurricane Rita just weeks later, which because of its path through oil and gas platforms had an e…
After all that Louisiana has been through with hurricanes and flooding over the past year, the last thing we’d call our next tropical storm is St. Nicholas.
It was no small triumph for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette this year when it was able to claim its specific place in the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine — the first one to claim Food and Drug Administration approval.
Things were always going to look different when the Saints opened their 2021 season.
As Hurricane Ida grew rapidly from a blip into one of the most dangerous storms to ever take aim at Louisiana, officials from numerous jurisdictions sounded the alarm and urged residents to get out of harm’s way. Some called for mandatory evacuati…
Are we back where we started?
If the Election Day scheduled for Oct. 9 was not the biggest one that Louisiana has ever seen, it still was an important one — with municipal elections in New Orleans and a number of special elections around the state, as well as four constitution…
We knew Hurricane Ida recovery would be a challenging, frustrating long-term project. We knew the effort would include bureaucracy, often necessary to make sure taxpayer money is well-spent, and often troublesome as bureaucrats behind a Washington…
We don’t have to imagine what a once beautiful, lively small community looks like when it becomes uninhabitable. Unfortunately, we can look to Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish.
According to the national narrative, the story of Katrina was that a great American city was brought to its knees. There were many times after the 2005 monster storm and levee failures that survivors felt forgotten. But in the end, the country stu…
Entergy New Orleans faced noisy opposition three years ago when it sought City Council approval to build a $210 million natural gas fired power plant in New Orleans East.
Just a few days ago, many of us were more concerned with adjusting back to working in an office or shop.
You can hear the frustration of Cade Brumley, Louisiana’s superintendent of schools: "A ton of momentum that we had, we are going to have to rebuild it again.”
“We’re all in this together.”
Back in August, we mused on this page about what would happen if a ferocious hurricane assaulted our state. Had 18 months of scorn and strife over the coronavirus made us distrustful of science, oblivious to danger, hateful toward each other?
Welcome back to Louisiana, President Biden.
Trees are down. Some roofs are torn or gone. Cell service has been spotty in some areas. More than 1 million homes and businesses were without power. Hurricane Ida came through with mighty force on Sunday and made sure we would remember its presen…
As if to taunt us, the hurricane gods sent Ida to Louisiana on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
If Monday really marked President Joe Biden’s deadline to end America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, we can only note that his predecessor had a deadline, too.
“This,” said Gov. John Bel Edwards very soberly, “is an incredibly challenging time for our state.”
The New Orleans Saints won their preseason football game with the Jacksonville Jaguars, but the more important win was the implementation of COVID-19 protocols requiring fans to show proof they have been vaccinated, or evidence that they tested ne…
The United States Marine Corps has had many tough jobs and serious losses in Afghanistan since the terrorist attacks of 2001. Trying to save people from oppression and worse cost the Corps and other U.S. forces heavily at Kabul airport.
Our Views: A year after Laura, Lake Charles deserves the full attention of Congress, and the country
It’s a sad irony that the first draft of history recorded Lake Charles and the rest of Calcasieu Parish as fortunate, after a slight shift in Hurricane Laura’s path kept a projected deadly storm surge at bay.
Waverly, Tennessee, we know your pain.
Don’t anyone think that vaccination cards at the gates of the Caesars Superdome or LSU’s Tiger Stadium are the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
Cheryl Teamer was a power player in New Orleans. An attorney, business and community advocate and corporate leader, Teamer grew her love for the city and attention to detail while pursuing a vision during her childhood. She carefully selected furn…
With the full approval of one vaccine, and more likely to come, is there going to be another season of hope about beating COVID-19?
When you flew as many combat missions as Paul Hilliard, you are always aware of those who did not come back.
In theory, the State Bond Commission’s job is to ensure that political subdivisions have the wherewithal to borrow money, that the projects are legal and feasible and that the government entity can repay any debt it incurs.
It’s heart-wrenching to watch the scenes from Kabul airport, only one of many places in that unhappy country where tragedies are occurring in the wake of the collapse of the government.
All too often, especially in recent years, the news about college fraternities and sororities is weighted toward the negative. Hazings and drinking games that lead to deaths are of course newsworthy and require attention from the public and from c…
John Bel Edwards claims to run a transparent administration, but those boasts were undermined by the lengthy cover-up of the horrific death of Ronald Greene while in the custody of Monroe-area state troopers.
Criticism is one thing. Dr. Joe Kanter did not deserve his disgraceful treatment at the State Capitol on Monday.
Politicians have made a fine art of keeping a straight face while spouting hypocrisies, but folks in Louisiana won’t miss the absurdity of the Biden administration’s request that OPEC boost oil production as the world’s economies recover from the …