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Last 50 Posts

• 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

• More interesting developments in ongoing saga of 16th JDC DA’s office: potential conflict in Chitimacha Tribe theft case

• New novel examines what happens when a NASA crew takes on life or death mission vs. mentally unstable US President

• Investigation costs compared; Scalise calls for Rosenstein removal; challenger Tammy Savoie says ‘Enough, already’

• Louisiana Supreme Court posts attorney disciplinary action on its web page: does it do the same for judges? Not so much

• Keep your eye on Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District race: things could get interesting in race against Higgins

• Where do you go with a juvenile rape case when accused’s father is political supporter of AG Landry and DA Duhé?

• Nothing to see here, folks; just our then-guv with accused spy Maria Butina (discussing his pending presidential bid?)

• Hell in Helsinki: Trump lives down to expectations: Commie-fighting Republicans in major quandary over what to do now

• More than $6M paid out by sheriffs’ offices in judgments, settlements since 2015; attorney fees add another $1.4M

• Democrat Justin DeWitt only Graves challenger to file federal campaign finance report; refuses PAC money

• Need a good laugh? How about a photo-op of a district judge joking at deputy lying on the lethal injection table at Angola?

• Ex-state trooper Jimmy Rogers writes rambling Facebook indictment of LSP after pleading guilty to 2 felony counts

• Calcasieu judge gets cart before horse in issuing order in messy remnant of Anna Nicole Smith protracted litigation

• Vehicle recovered in Terrebonne with AR-15, cop’s duty belt, handcuffs…along with check stub for Sheriff Jerry Larpenter

• The political pot in Iberia Parish just continues boiling with more reports of retaliatory actions by local elected officials

• Iberia Parish sheriff sued yet again; details of vendetta against clerk, his indictment, and local politics emerge

• Chastened for recycling old news, LouisianaVoice discovers another long-distance Department of Education employee

• Notable Quotables (in Trump’s own words)

• State Sen. Conrad Appel takes time out from addressing state fiscal problems to exploit phobia of undocumented workers

• Trend of women seeking high political office reaches Baton Rouge as Democrat Andie Saizan goes after Garrett Graves

• DeSoto Sheriff Jayson Richardson (or Samuel Baldwin?) fighting auditors to conceal employee personnel records

• Terrebonne Sheriff Larpenter proves to be adept at spending other people’s $$ in 30 year-tenure; $130K on golf tourneys

• For Trump, Sessions, Kennedy, Cassidy, rest of the family values clique, life begins at conception, ends at US border

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• The Case of the Mysterious ‘X’ (or how Jerry Larpenter went from a deputy to chief criminal deputy to sheriff within days

• Attorney General’s office botches DWI matter on behalf of Terrebonne power structure, so now he tries for a do-over

• An open letter to the Louisiana Legislature (especially to those members who still insist that they are Christians):

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• What do John Guandolo and the late Billy James Hargis have in common? Propensity for fear-mongering and loose zippers

• LDOE set Lefkowith’s salary at dime under requirement for Louisiana residency; also paid for his drive from L.A. to LA

• Lawsuit settlements, judgments cost Iberia Sheriff’s Office staggering $23,000 per month for Ackal’s 10 years in office

• As the country rushes toward another economic disaster, the Koch Brothers prop up Louisiana’s Graves, Johnson, Scalise

• Help needed in formatting, publishing novels as e-books

• Sen. John Kennedy, the authority on state fiscal matters, also apparently is an authority on federal investigations

• Cedric Richmond only member of Louisiana’s congressional delegation wise enough to vote against Dodd-Frank rollback

• Jindal WSJ op-eds reminiscent of kid who keeps pestering mom for candy in the grocery store: he just won’t shut up

• 20 LDOE unclassified employees rake in huge pay increases totaling $534,600 over 5 years, an average of $26,730 each