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Analysis: Lawmakers don't follow their rhetoric 

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lawmakers have taken strong philosophical positions on certain financial issues, but they aren't always keeping in step with their own rhetoric this legislative session. The...
Jun 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to start watching the Gulf
Memorial Day weekend means it's time to start watching the Gulf. The beginning of hurricane season is less than a week ago, and the predictions are that this could be a mean one. Philip Klotzbach ...
May 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 179 179 recommendations | email to a friend
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Raises possible for sheriffs, some parish presidents
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPolitics.com The pay raise proposals winding through the Legislature for clerks of court, assessors and judges could potentially increase the salaries of sherif...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 173 173 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 | 164 164 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 | 146 146 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 | 4 4 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 | 102 102 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 | 6 6 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 | 116 116 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 | 7 7 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 | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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