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Fire was big threat to towns
Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remembering Mary Alice
It's hard to believe that today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Mary Alice Fontenot, the newspaperwoman, teacher, and storyteller who knew and was known by practically everyone in Acad...
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cinqo de Mayo and Louisiana
Cinqo de Mayo, the fifth of May, commemorates the Mexican army's defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, It was a huge victory for the Mexicans who were outnumbered two to ...
May 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Analysis: Tax over, other battles emerge
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE — Tax discussions may be largely dead for the legislative session, but lawmakers have found a list of other issues over which to bicker for the next...
Apr 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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The death of Guillaume Barjeau
In October 1788, César Archinard, Edward Murphy, and François Brunet were sent to the Bayou Chicot community by Nicolas Forstall, commandant of the Poste des Opelousas, to investigate the sudden de...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jindal’s tax reversal was a surprise to legislation’s sponsor
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD Gov. Bobby Jindal’s announcement Monday that he is shelving his tax swap plan came as a surprise to the sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Joel Robideaux, R-Lafayet...
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Egg knocking serious business
"Pacques Pacques" means "Easter Easter" in French, but it is also the name in Louisiana of a contest that began innocently enough but that has become a major tradition in some Louisiana communities...
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Analysis: Pay hikes draw complaints from lawmakers
An AP News Analysis BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lawmakers trying to track how Louisiana spends its money are learning that even if they don’t fund pay raises, state agencies still are finding ways to b...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Analysis: Little data for Medicaid opposition
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — If Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration wants to back up its claims that the governor's rejection of the expansion of Medicaid isn't political grandstanding, it might be helpf...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Analysis: Football draws a crowd at the Capitol
BATON ROUGE, la. (AP) — The legislative committee room was packed, with education leaders from across Louisiana spilling out into the hall and lawmakers intensely focused on the information at hand...
Mar 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lafitte wasn't only pirate
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one. A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sequester, Who’s to Blame: Washington
By JEFF LANDRY In August 2011, just like today, there was no shortage of political propaganda. Except back then, both the president and Speaker John Boehner were praising their debt ceiling increas...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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