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Last 50 Posts

• Busy Week at LouisianaVoice: more public records litigation, political contributions investigation, arrest of LA. tax official

• Another judgment against state official who is allowed to walk as taxpayers pick up $400,000 tab–plus legal costs

• Grandstanding Landry loses public records case, but state taxpayers are the real losers in having to pay his legal fees

• Jeff Landry, the paragon of virtue for public records access, finds himself named as defendant in public records lawsuit

• Judge who wrote opinion overturning award against DOTD ousted; defendant employee implicated in separate matter

• Trump (who I barely know) says most of the 800,000 idled federal workers are Democrats (a unique negotiating ploy)

• The waters around Timmy Teepell and his OnMessage consulting firm just seem to get murkier and murkier

• AG Jeff Landry made 2015 media buy through firm linked to NRA-Trump scheme of routing funds through shell company

• Landry over barrel in bucking nemesis Edwards’ prison reform vs. his hero Trump’s criminal justice reform bill

• Harbinger of things to come? Judge rules law enforcement had no duty to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas students

• So, why were state taxpayers required to pony up $184K in settlement of sexual harassment suit against Tom Schedler?

• Louisiana worst-run state in U.S., but don’t worry; the legislature is coming to bail us out (as they always do)

• The governor’s race and the thread connecting a former governor’s advisor to the NRA, the Russians and Trump

• A simple exercise for Trumpsters

• If you still rationalize anything and everything Trump does or if you have high blood pressure, DO NOT read this post!

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• Judge slaps down Vermilion School Board arrest of teacher at board meeting; Jeff Landry swoops in for share of credit

• Four Louisiana metro areas among worst 38 poverty areas in the nation but the question is, where are leaders who care?

• Trump ‘raked’ over his asinine raking solution to California fires; discourages any thought of return to stand up comedy

• Fifteen-minute video by Together Louisiana illustrates the inequity of corporations profiting in poor neighborhoods

• PSC member Foster Campbell has 30,500 reasons to oppose Claiborne Electric Co-op’s proposal for rural internet service

• Jeff Landry as U.S. AG? Don’t make me laugh (or cry)

• New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport lead nation in city murder rates; Louisiana leads nation in state murder rate

• Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office drowning in a sea of civil and criminal court cases; payouts now exceed 3 million dollars

• Whitaker is just the latest in long line of Trump’s promise of ‘only the best and most serious…top-of-the-line” appointees

• Appeal Court candidate admits paying convicted felon to get out the vote for his re-election campaign, then walks it back

• Trump zealots: read Michael Lewis’s book and get back to me

• Appropriate theme song suggested for Trump administration

• Trump picks Heather Nauert for UN ambassador; she thinks D-Day invasion is example of our “strong ties” with Germany

• Ending birthright citizenship could have an upside

• If we can’t eliminate dishonesty in politicians, perhaps we can embarrass them in the hope they will be more discreet

• This isn’t taught in high school civics: DeSoto Parish sheriff harasses man whose ex wife and mother in law work for S.O.

• Trump and Pat Robertson: the ultimate Odd Couple and both must be held accountable for bigotry, rhetoric, violent acts

• Make it stop! Iberia Sheriff hit with $122,500 judgment for 2015 pepper spraying and beating of a handcuffed prisoner

• Lawsuit filed in Iberia by heirs of Carrier family whom they claim was cheated out of oil and gas royalties a century ago

• Landry refuses to investigate Catholic Church sex abuse; could it be because his mom teaches in Catholic school?

• After Further Review…..LouisianaVoice is back!

• Louisiana is the 4th-least educated state in latest survey, but hey! LSU leads Alabama in producing NFL Pro-Bowl players

• Many questions swirl around arrested Sterlington coach but mainly why is he now teaching at West Monroe High School?

• How did LSPC become involved in a local matter? Because of the Ouachita Parish School Board’s lapse in moral character

• Iberia ex-deputy resigns from restructured New Iberia PD after release of video showing him attack, choke prisoner

• State Police Supt. Kevin Reeves says enough with the negative coverage of LSP: We respectfully disagree

• Conrad Appel says we don’t show proper respect to our LIC (Liar in Chief); maybe he should purchase Trump U. stock

• Erstwhile power of governor to suspend local officeholders weighed against will of local voters in case of Iberia’s Ackal

• No politics, no controversy, no scandals: just reflection on 50 wonderful years of marriage to a most beautiful woman

• Sen. John Kennedy, demonstrating he has zero intelligence, refers to top intelligence expert John Brennan as ‘butthead’

• Is Omarosa an opportunist? You bet. Is Trump a pathological liar? Of Course. Are there any good guys in this story? Nope

• In down home version of ‘Sleeping with the Enemy,’ Gov. John Bel Edwards addresses annual ALEC meeting in N.O.

• 2 Aswell E-books now available on Kindle, other platforms

• Democrat in red St. Tammany Parish bucking system in quest for former Rep. Cromer’s District 90 House seat