FINS with GUMBO, with a NEST: Saving young people
(July 20) Someone can be “tough on crime” and at the same time, without logical contradiction, also want to do preventive work addressing crime’s “root causes.” Social work and prosecutorial […]
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Why is Gov. Landry messing up the levee board?
(A version of this is running as the July 22 official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune) With the height of hurricane season fast approaching, Gov. Jeff Landry owes Louisianans a thorough […]
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This ‘murderer’ may be innocent, and deserves bail
(July 17) It is almost impossible to think of a punishment too severe for someone who — I hate to even write these words — raped and murdered a two-year-old. On the other […]
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Medicaid reforms are OK, and Cassidy saves Louisiana
(July 10, print edition) There is much to like and plenty to dislike about the misnamed “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law on July 4, but the fearmongering about its provisions […]
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Why tennis’ Arthur Ashe gives a lesson for NORD
(July 13) So, what does Wimbledon tennis have to do with a New Orleans inspector general’s critical report about the New Orleans Recreation and Development Commission and its supporting foundation? […]
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The Fourth of July supersedes bad politics
(July 4) Independence Day is such a favorite holiday of mine that when this nation had its bicentennial celebration in 1976, I told my father I wanted to live to 112 […]
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Gov. Landry shoots at legislators, hurts constituents instead
(July 6) Parents worried about their children’s safety as they go to Parkway High School in Bossier City should be furious right now with Gov. Jeff Landry. So should parents who […]
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T-P/Advocate editorial: Court messed up redistricting
(Official Advocate/Times-Picayune editorial, July 1) In the seemingly interminable turmoil over Louisiana’s congressional district shapes and boundaries, the U.S. Supreme Court left Louisiana in limbo last week. Rather than issuing a decision […]
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Will Sutton: Only Clarence Thomas had wisdom on redistricting
(Column by my colleague Will Sutton, July 6) The U.S. Supreme Court kept millions of Louisianans — and millions more across the nation — waiting for one of the most […]
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George Will: Supreme Court messes up redistricting case
(By George Will, originally in the Washington Post, July 2) Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a deferential Supreme Court, by […]
