Editorial

France and Louisiana? Good news!

President Trump has put the French back in good graces with the U.S. while criticizing other European nations. He apparently turned a cold shoulder to both German and England over

If you don’t care, beware

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Luck. Do I believe in it? I don’t know. But it’s Friday the 13th and I’m still a little nervous. Last time this holiday or whatever you call it rolled

May truth prevail in investigation

This week an investigative audit released by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office show that Fenton employees and officials may have broken the law (see page one of today’s edition). District

Travelling memory lane online

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There are some good things about Facebook and of course, there is some bad in everything. Some of us seek the bad while most of us would only seek the

Stick to your guns

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Earlier this week IHOP, the International House of Pancakes (or perhaps most recently known as IHOB, the International House of Burgers) announced that actually, forget they said they changed their

Support school supply drives

How much money are parents and students expected to spend on school supplies in America this fall? About $6 billion, according to projections from the National Retail Federation. That number

Top auditor digs into Medicaid spending

Louisiana’s chief auditor has locked his sights on Medicaid, bolstering his office’s review of the billions of dollars spent by the health program and rolling out report after report identifying

Gooooooaaaaal!

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I’ve been forced to watch a lot of World Cup football this year, because I’ve been traveling outside the the U.S. If, like me, you don’t follow soccer, it’s hard

New state app could cause problems

Ever pull out of the driveway in the morning and get down the street only to realize you left your wallet, or even just your driver’s license at home? You think to yourself, there’s no way I’ll get pulled over in that amount of time. The police will never even know I’m out here driving without a license. Then you hear the sirens.

You’ll probably be issued a ticket, but luckily since you actually do own a driver’s license and only forgot it at home, you’ll likely be able to get the charges dropped by showing up in court and proving you had a license at the time of traffic stop.

Some of this and some of that

I sometimes like to write a lagniappe column, a piece that touches on a few current events. This typically happens when I do not have enough thoughts regarding one subject about which to write, so I guess it’s more of a lazy lagniappe column.

Anyway.

• Keep Louisiana (kinda) beautiful