by Editorial Staff | Apr 8, 2025 | Carencro, Lafayette, Louisiana, Sunshine
We have to wonder: Will there ever come a day when our government officials realize their actions often achieve the opposite of their stated goals? Remember Youngsville Cash on Ice? Well, strap in for another installment of government-run ‘economic...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 28, 2025 | St. Martin, Sunshine
Several years ago, we published “A Stench Along The Teche – Outcomes of the St. Martin Parish Criminal Justice System.” Not long after that publication, the 16th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Supervising Attorney for St. Martin Parish, Robert Chevalier,...
by Michael Lunsford | Mar 19, 2025 | About Us, Libraries, Louisiana, Sunshine
If you haven’t heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), consider yourself lucky. Their purpose (at least as I understand it) is to label people and organizations as “hate groups” so that others feel morally justified in viciously attacking...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 17, 2025 | Education, Libraries, Livingston, Louisiana, Sunshine
If you are like most people, you have been entertained by national politics, particularly by President Donald Trump. Watching him take executive action to reverse many harmful policies pushed down by the previous executive has been very encouraging. From reversing DEI...
by Editorial Staff | Mar 14, 2025 | Smaller Government, Sunshine
A barrage of constitutional amendments comes upon us every year like raindrops in a Louisiana thunderstorm. They find their way on the ballot during these low-turnout elections, with a fragment of the people deciding the fate of our most important state document....
by Editorial Staff | Mar 13, 2025 | Lafayette, Legislature, Louisiana, Sunshine
We have been paying attention to this for some time. In fact, we were the first media organization to tell you about the dissemination of fake political messages in recent political races in the Acadiana area. Now, we are finally seeing law enforcement action taken...