by Michael Lunsford | Apr 16, 2024 | Libraries, Louisiana, Sunshine
It must have been six or seven years ago when we discovered (quite by accident) that the library had morphed into something entirely different than what anyone understood. Back then, if anyone even breathed a question about the library, they were quickly denounced as...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 13, 2024 | Legislature, Louisiana
In 1972, the United States Supreme Court declared that parental rights have been “established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition.” [Wisconsin v. Yoder]. In recent years, there has been a growing concern about government overreach and meddling in the...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 8, 2024 | Legislature, LPSS
Voting records on legislative instruments for the most part are predictable. While some items are split almost perfectly down party lines, others can show where core values and personal convictions stray from the political party. Sometimes it’s a social issue of...
by Michael Lunsford | Jun 19, 2023 | Legislature
Newspaper headlines and articles across the state are criticizing the Republican controlled legislature as it went on the biggest spending spree in Louisiana history. Our legislature was not legally entitled to spend every dollar of the enormous surplus. In Louisiana,...
by Editorial Staff | Apr 10, 2023 | Legislature
There was a fisherman in the Atchafalaya Basin who one day came upon a beautiful ornate bottle in the muck and the mud. He picked it up and observed it was sealed with a cork, but despite being empty it was unusually heavy. Curious of his findings he set about to...