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Last 50 Posts

• Legal defense fund started for Baton Rouge minister who attacked neighbor in fit of righteous indignation Tuesday

• Add-on fees to apartment rentals are crushing tenants and helping to make the dream of home ownership impossible

• Who needs a White House cage fight? We’ve got sheriffs, judges and preachers entertaining us with their own fights

• Ruston hospital has until Wednesday to submit detailed plan to avoid losing Medicare payment eligibility following review

• Anonymous whistleblower alleges grades manipulated at Haughton High School, allowing 6 ineligibles to graduate

• Mulhearn piles on Landry, Trump (you’re welcome)

• Jeffey Epstein connection to scandal unearthed by Ruston’s ‘Morning Paper’ Publisher John Hays deserves exploration

• Has Allegiance Health been driven onto the rocks by CEO Rock, casting future of 11 Louisiana hospitals in jeopardy?

• Sorsby opts for NFL, avoiding epic clash of the AGs, the NCAA, TT booster Curry over issue of gambling on team

• Stephen Miller is whispering in Dementia Don’s ear that the writ of Habeas Corpus should be suspended for immigrants

• Former State Senator recalls hysteria of McCarthyism, the HUAC and his own failed effort to abolish the loyalty oath

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• Bossier jury sends strong message to child sex abusers with award of $1.1 billion against abusive late stepfather’s estate

• Former Deridder mayor Misty Roberts gets 90 days for diddling son’s friend at pool party, raising a few eyebrows

• Texas judge overrules NCAA, gives gambling quarterback eligibility to play: another wrinkle in evolving sports scene

• Maybe it’s something in the water but local officials can’t stay out of trouble when they combine steaks with booze

• Baton Rouge mother fights a lonely battle to overcome legal system of confusion, court costs and abuse in custody battle

• Third person implicated in that cage match involving St. Tammany sheriff and critic in Madisonville restaurant

• Cartoon pretty much says all that need be said for Diaper Don’s birthday bash on White House lawn this Saturday

• Judge in Catahoula, Concordia is marked down by K-Mart but don’t worry, he’s for sale, he’s just in the bargain rack

• Smackdown in Madisonville overshadows Trump’s June 14 birthday White House cage match in both drama & comedy

• As expected, St. Tammany Council reappoints its personal puppet to five-year term to preside over library censorship

• Bill to regulate collegiate sports would prevent another Lane Kiffin-like mid-season hire; would not affect NIL payments

• Livingston Library Board, which couldn’t wait to fire head librarian a year ago, still flailing about for a new director

• St. Tammany Library Board’s hysteria continues unabated; meeting set for Thursday to take up president appoinment

• Trump creating ‘Early American White Trash’ Beltway

• Era of McCarthyism born 76 years ago today; comparisons to today’s political climate eerily similar to 1950’s hysteria

• Even a hint of impropriety should trigger a judicial recusal but the Louisiana Supreme Court, in its wisdom, disagrees

• Trump’s face to grace the proposed $250 bill

• The Otto von Bismark adage was never more applicable…

• Baton Rouge attorney learns that Grant Parish Courthouse rests atop a mass gravesite of blacks killed in 1873 massacre

• Lake Charles attorney targeted by Texas AG Paxton, local DA DeRosier files application for a share of Trump’s slush fund

• Remind you of anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

• In terms of self-dealing, no one is better than Donald Trump, But State Sen. Jay Morris is a pretty good knock-off model

• While some diehard LSU fans applaud Orgeron’s return, one writer has a different take on redemption and forgiveness

• The battle continues to rage over the legality of NDAs when judge tells Ascension to reveal contents, parish files appeal

• Guns, traps–it doesn’t matter: public officials need to know when they’re messing with pets, they’re messing with family

• Legislature passes bill designed to prevent veterans’ ripoffs: Now, if they’d just do something about that Nigerian prince

• Even Mike Johnson and his buddies in Congress are finding it hard to make ends meet without supplementing their pay

• Quityerbellyaching. Legislators are working to maintain a high standard of living during hard times–for themselves

• The piling on begins at Mt. Olive Christian School: ‘witness’ says accuser claimed similar misconduct more than year ago

• Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket explained

• St. Tammany court neglects to inform father of his visitation rights even as he continued to pay child support for 11 years

• Jackson Parish woman held in isolation after sons oppose interim Sheriff’s campaign for election to office full-time

• Two Louisiana Tech alumni speak at commencements. The contrast between the two could not have been any greater.

• House vote on SCORE Act, designed to rein in the runaway college athletic costs, again delayed, now appears to be dead

• Squeaky Toy Landry mission to ‘make friends’ in Greenland goes ‘poof’ as kiddos reject cheap merch, give middle fingers

• Jim Crow, alive and well in state legislatures, Congress

• Caddo voters in at least one polling precinct barred from voting for Senate, PSC races; only amendments on ballot

• Survivor of New Bethany relates horrors experienced, possible unauthorized abortion performed while there