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Last 50 Posts

• BR TV reporter, LSP investigator may have derailed Doug Cain’s aspirations to become State Police Superintendent

• Houston jail to ease overcrowding by sending 500 pretrial detainees to LaSalle Correctional private jails in Louisiana

• A young, energetic reporter could make a good living just writing about all the shenanigans in St. Tammany Parish

• NOPD seeking ‘persons of interest’ in 2012 Cucchiara murder; but they’ve known about the couple all along

• Think Louisiana roads are bad? You’re correct but it’s not because state doesn’t lay out $$; it may be how it’s spent

• I’m not overly sentimental, but Christmas is a time for healing old wounds and renewing valued friendships

• We need to step back and ask ourselves just who the real adolescent is in the debate over the perceived CRT evils

• Guest columnist examines how coaches are paid with ‘private money’ that in reality, comes from public but hidden funding

• Tornado tragedy overshadows infuriating spectacle of teachers scrambling for dollar bills on S.D. hockey rink

• We get the government we deserve and we are stuck with a whiny, pipsqueak, pathetic excuse of an AG in Jeff Landry

• Have we lost our football-crazed minds? Three- quarters-of-a-million dollars per game for a coach is just plain insanity!

• Inaugural meeting of Senate’s State Police Oversight Committee to convene Monday: Don’t expect too much

• Video of horrendous attack by Lake Charles Police Dept. K-9 surfaces; culminates in undisclosed large lawsuit settlement

• I keep getting on these bizarre mailing lists and I find them to be irritating – but surprisingly entertaining and hilarious

• If you got the money, you can buy all the justice you want; those wih fewer resources end up on the outside looking in

• ‘David’ Baton Rouge law firm faces ‘Goliath’ Union Pacific RR team in safety, termination battle and wins huge award

• Efforts to stem the teaching of history, access to objectional literature, art are laughable at best and frightening at worst

• John Neely Kennedy is no modern-day Will Rogers; just a platitudinous, pseudo-hillbilly philosophizing educated fool

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• Did we learn anything from the Texas debacle last winter? Now Skrmetta wants to pull Louisiana out of power grid

• Michael Flynn plays a favorite tune of evangelicals when he advocates for the establishment of ‘one religion’ in America

• Southwest Louisiana residents learning about insurance perils, scams that LouisianaVoice warned about in 2017

• Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain, profiled in my book, ‘Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs,’ guilty on all 6 counts

• Former ‘Trooper of the Year’ brings more embarrassment to troubled LSP with sentencing of 210 months for kiddie porn

• Is anyone surprised at report that Ronald Greene didn’t die from vehicle collision? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

• Like a recurring dream, the ghost of Jindal Past haunts Louisiana as holdover Liz Murrill contemplates AG run

• Two of three candidates for New Iberia City Marshal have some pretty heavy political baggage in the Nov. 13 election

• Athletic Department’s woes are just symptomatic of a much larger problem that festers at Louisiana’s flagship university

• Landry’s GOP attorneys general group recipient of major contribution used to finance January Capitol insurrection

• Louisiana’s sub-par economy notwithstanding, there’s plenty of money to spread around on incoming and exiting coaches

• Before you dismiss bloggers, perhaps you should first consider their credentials; some are real journalists

• Retired State Trooper isn’t buying into ‘radio silence’ as a legitimate reason for not finding slain trooper for 15 hours

• CSPOA-type who openly advances concept of another Civil War announces early as a candidate for Livingston Sheriff

• Decision by convenience store could make it ‘convenient’ for future plaintiffs in slip and fall lawsuits to… well, slip & fall

• Facebook whistleblower hype aside, local lawsuit in firing over RR safety has more impact than online gossip, debate

• Legislators failed to do their research (as usual) when they questioned DHH’s Stephen Russo on nursing home debacle

• Rash of court filings involving State Police Commissioner Jared Caruso-Riecke enough to induce migraine headache

• Indictment of State Trooper in beating comes after 175 stories, two beatings, a death, several LSP retirements

• Caruso-Riecke membership creates blurry but disturbing line between State Police Commission and organized crime family

• Once quiet Ruston has become the epicenter of controversy with a lawsuit citing rape allegations at Cedar Creek School

• A knotty dilemma: what’s an ambitious Texas Repugnantcan legislator going to do when his mistress turns up pregnant?

• Got $500 or $5000 to spare? Former Guy’s got a new scam to take your money with ‘personal’ message to a loved one

• Ex-sheriff’s refusal to comply with ADA to accommodate disabled deputy costs Rapides; office is still in violation

• Ida be damned! Landry fundraiser comes off on schedule as state’s homeless dig out from carnage, seek shelter and food

• Col. Davis gives assurances that everything is going to be all better with implementation of long overdue reforms at LSP

• Hurricane relief workers should come before LouisianaVoice

• Notable Quotables (in their own words)

• LV September fundraiser continues despite reader’s anger

• Landry to investigate nursing home evacuations, but can he avoid any potential conflict of interests over contributions?

• LouisianaVoice fundraiser won’t try to match Trump