Which comes first, a Captain Clay run for governor or a reality TV show? ...

Joel Robideaux’s reliance on a well-connected lobbying firm to set the table for his tenure as mayor-president deserves a few raised eyebrows ...

What is so disturbing about all this is the unavoidable conclusion that Mr. Georges, an intelligent man, has failed to comprehend the dangers implicit in a potential run for governor — or, that he does, but just doesn’t care ...

I knew the merits of the Ambassador Town Center proposal were in question when the best defense proponents could muster was the Tea Party was against it. Trust me when I say finding myself on the same side of an issue with muttering cranks like former ...

While the breadth and depth of the financial industry’s down cycle is hard to predict, there is ample evidence Acadiana bankers will emerge bruised — not battered. News remains very encouraging about the health of Acadiana banks. Think about it ...

But we can hope for more. Bobby Jindal is clearly ambitious and well-intentioned. He started with ethics, promising us new ethics laws and delivering. Yet his efforts on ethics reform, much heralded and praised, await the hard evidence that the ...

I was happy to hear from two well-known voices on a subject I wrote about, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s decision to certify for many Louisiana public science classrooms the religious dogma of “creation science,” the exquisite ...

Now comes more news from the Louisiana Department of “The Harder We Work the Behinder We Get." Yes, we continue our determined struggle to occupy the lowest rung among our fellow states on the science education ladder by implementing regressive new ...

I was happy to hear from two well-known voices on a subject I wrote about, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s decision to certify for many ...

The state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will take up further debate over how and to what extent Louisiana’s science curriculum in public middle schools and high schools will be invaded by the “junk science” of creationism. These ...