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Last 50 Posts

• 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

• That letter from Liz Murrill to New Orleans officials? It’s exactly what you’d expect from third-world dictatorship

• Where’s Jeff Landry in aftermath of amendments fiasco?

• DA candidate attacks LouisianaVoice publisher for the ‘fake name’ used in local paper’s reprint of husband’s arrest story

• Louisiana Senate eliminates pesky Black district

• Chemical castration for clerical child sex-abusers? It might be a good solution to a serious societal problem in America

• LSP reach $4.8 million settlement with Greene family but justice remains elusive for troopers involved in his death

• Jackson Parish sheriff’s race a good fit for Louisiana

• Be oh, so careful in voting for judicial candidates; there are so many false prophets, it’s difficult to make wise choices

• We aren’t Alabama, but the objectives are the same

• We tried to tell you two years ago. Now the feds have taken over with the indictments of 5 Catahoula deputies for abuse

• The Dinosaurs bid a fond farewell to their founder

• They may call him Judge, but he’s no legal scholar; he’s just another in a (too) long line of typical Louisiana politicians

• If Robert Mann’s post doesn’t make you angry, embarrassed, then you’re a big part of Louisiana’s Repugnantcan problem

• School principal husband of DA candidate may have been subject of as many as 80 complaints of sexual misconduct

• Jackson Parish Interim Sheriff Brent Barnett, running for a full term, uses office email to promote his outside business

• Former Mt. Olive Christian School student says accused principal had students he favored, wrote ‘love notes’ to

• It’s kinda the same thing as 1500% reduction in drug prices

• Just when you thought he couldn’t sink any lower…

• Sometimes the truth is just too obvious…