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Eight unrelated shootings in East Baton Rouge Parish over 10 days in late June left a senseless and bloody trail of bodies. Four lives...

The immigration debate raging across the country may seem somewhat removed from us here in Louisiana, where the biggest threat to our southern border...

If you look up John Bel Edwards on Wikipedia, it describes the governor as a “conservative Democrat.” Someone should correct that. Sure, as we...

In south Louisiana, where politics and football are too easily labeled as theater and where forgotten pirates and fallen pastors maintain high regards, the...

On one side of the ballot, prognosticators and at least one poll are predicting that young voters will cast a long shadow over next...

Have you seen any polls lately? Did you get our poll? You're not going to cover that poll, are you?  Do you know who's in the field...

The outrage was almost immediate. Baton Rouge and its city-parish government, with an annual budget just shy of $1 billion, can’t find a spare...

I am still struggling to understand how the city-parish and its two program management teams of 16 engineering and consulting firms—that’s right, 16—will efficiently...

It was sad reading our recent cover story (“No man’s land,” May 21) on the demise of Florida Boulevard. I participated with the Regional/Urban...

The inaugural campaign of Gov. John Bel Edwards dished up a full course of lessons for Louisiana.   We found out that personality politics can...