In the heavyweight division of histrionic statements, the city of Kenner vs. Nike is not a major league bout.

For Americans — and our friends and supporters around the world, who grieved with us and fought back with us — today's anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ought to be remembered and reflected upon.

A settlement between the state and federal agencies over housing the mentally ill in nursing homes is forcing change in the health care industry in Louisiana.

Louisiana top transportation official is a regular commuter, so Shawn Wilson's a consumer of his product. These days, the head of the Department of Transportation and Development can also see the result of his agency's work almost all the way into…

Soon, bookstore patrons here and across the country will be greeted by the image of Ulysses S. Grant, whose likeness isn’t often seen in public spaces in Louisiana.

A generation has elapsed since the bruising battles were fought over higher admissions requirements for Louisiana universities. The lessons of those debates may be forgotten if LSU weakens its requirements for freshman admissions.

The "silos" of organizations, the parts that focus on their own tasks and miss opportunities for collaboration, are a commonplace buzzword of management these days.

Louisiana residents are really good at celebrating holidays, as folks here and our friends around the rest of the world well know. But since Labor Day coincides with the peak of hurricane season, Mother Nature doesn’t always cooperate to let Louis…

Louisiana's state government is in better shape financially than it has been in a while, and the Wall Street bond rating agencies are noticing.

Editor's note: The Advocate has published this editorial, with variations, on previous holidays.

When teachers walked off the job in six states this spring, teacher pay was once again on the front burner politically.

Let's hear it for growth, as the nation now records its longest economic expansion on record — 9½ years and counting, as of August. But in Louisiana, we also have another milestone from a decade ago.

A lawsuit involving the internal politics of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office can sometimes sound like a family squabble, but the dispute involves a public agency supported by taxpayers.

The controversy over a planned drag queen story time at the Lafayette Public Library has us wishing for a simpler era when libraries didn’t inspire such fuss over their offerings. Even so, we know our nostalgia is misplaced. Truth be told, public …

Sometimes when public figures address one another as "my good friend," when they rarely agree if at all, it sounds like at best a pleasantry and at worst a political hypocrisy.

It’s been a difficult summer across America, with erupting volcanoes in Hawaii, continuing wildfires in California and flooding in the Northeast. Those natural disasters are testing the resolve of thousands of Americans in ways that the people of …

When U.S. Sen. John McCain, of Arizona, ran for president in 2008 as the Republican nominee, he got 59 percent of the vote in reliably red Louisiana. He probably would have carried the state without a single visit to Louisiana during the campaign.

With so many folks in Louisiana working hard in low-wage jobs, the decision of the state under Gov. Bobby Jindal to refuse Medicaid insurance coverage for struggling families just slightly above the poverty line never made sense.

The thought of a convicted felon being asked to help keep used car dealers honest sounds like the premise of a comedy sketch, but this idea wasn’t cooked by professional jokesters.

Louisiana’s local and parish taxing authorities — whether they like it or not — are going to have to forfeit revenue on the sales of guns and hunting equipment as part of a sales tax holiday approved — imperfectly — by the geniuses at the Legislature.

Bishop Michael Duca has much work to do as he’s formally installed today to lead the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, replacing outgoing Bishop Robert Muench.

It’s been sobering to pick up the newspaper these past few days and notice how the sports news and crime news have converged.

It’s bad enough that Alabama stole our football coach and their team breaks our hearts every November.

Some key federal support, though it doesn't involve full funding, is a big step toward a long-sought deepening of the Mississippi River.

The Lake Wobegon Association of Louisiana school superintendents is in full cry. It appears — based on a scale that reflects real progress of students — not every Louisiana public school is really above average. The superintendents are worried bec…

The prospect of a cyberattack on the computers that control Mississippi River ports’ loading and unloading process is a threat not only to Louisiana, but the nation that depends on river commerce to sustain the American economy.

When President Donald Trump irresponsibly claims that members of the media who report unpleasant things about his administration are “enemies of the people,” he probably has in mind the big national newspapers and major TV networks that have a lar…

The political grandstanding at the State Capitol dove to a new low this week as State Treasurer John Schroder led an effort to inject gun rights debates into a mundane decision of the State Bond Commission.

While it is a bit of a post-Katrina milestone, the opening of the last of the six libraries destroyed in the city of New Orleans in 2005 reflects more than just a comeback story.

During his address to the Baton Rouge Rotary earlier this month, LSU football coach Ed Orgeron boasted that he had hired more analysts to review film of the Tigers’ rivals. Just to keep up with other coaches, like the guy in Tuscaloosa, Orgeron sa…

After the 2016 floods ruined thousands of homes and businesses in the Baton Rouge area, residents worked long and hard to restore their lives to the way they were before the waters rose.

With a letter denouncing prison reform as it is being carried out in Louisiana, John N. Kennedy tried to crash a White House party on the issue, where Gov. John Bel Edwards was invited and the junior senator from the Bayou State was not.

An officer of the law should not have to put up with threats to his job when he arrests somebody. But two men from Livingston and Tangipahoa parishes won a lawsuit, on constitutional grounds, after they were accused of public intimidation.