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Editorial: Why should Louisiana have to go to court to get flood insurance answers?

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 22, 2023

Louisiana probably has the biggest stake in a complex and needlessly secretive federal move to increase premiums for the National Flood Insurance Program.

Editorial: Louisiana owes Southern University more equitable funding

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 21, 2023

LSU and Southern University are both land-grant institutions, but it's no secret that LSU has been far better funded than Southern.?

Editorial: Without help from Mother Nature, a nation's commerce withers on the river

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 20, 2023

Canal Barge of New Orleans has been in business since 1933, but it is an inheritor of literally centuries of tradition of shipping on America’s inland waterways.

Editorial: B.I. Moody's life was a panorama of postwar America

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 19, 2023

In the diverse fields of business, journalism and politics, it’s difficult to name anyone who did things with the aplomb and success of B.I. Moody.

Editorial: A good corporate citizen recommits to Louisiana, New Orleans

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 19, 2023

It is an internationally known “brand” that any developer would want to be associated with, but that's only one reason why Shell's long-term commitment to a U.S. Gulf of Mexico headquarters in…

Editorial: Cleaner processes vital to new growth in area industries

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 19, 2023

If we’re serious about reducing carbon emissions and protecting the health of planet Earth, a key sector has to be ammonia production, a major emitter of CO2 as it produces other vital product…

Editorial: An insurance crisis puts squeeze on affordable housing

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 19, 2023

For homeowners, and for owners of rental properties like apartment complexes,?staggering increases in insurance premiums since the 2020-21 hurricane seasons have been an unwelcome financial blow.

Editorial: Once you do your time, prison should be in the past

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 18, 2023

If you do the crime, you must expect to do the time.

Editorial: In an era of more disasters, a new record in U.S.

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 17, 2023

With a little help from a summer high-pressure system blocking movements in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana enters the heart of hurricane season not having seen a major storm.

Editorial: Vaccines, both new and old, are lifesavers for kids and their families

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 15, 2023

By more than 9 to 1, Louisiana families believe in rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated.

Editorial: Search for new NOPD chief showed how process should work

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 14, 2023

Mayor LaToya Cantrell has finally made her choice for superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department: Anne Kirkpatrick, a veteran law enforcement executive who most recently served as the…

Editorial: Don't let a temporary juvenile jail become an Angola feature

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 13, 2023

The idea of holding some juveniles in a hastily renovated lockup at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was intended to be temporary.

Editorial: Making Louisiana a winner in highway projects

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 12, 2023

The completion of the first two segments of a big Interstate 12 repair and widening project on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain is good news, as Gov. John Bel Edwards said, because it is …

Editorial: Across the world, memories of terrorist horrors

STAFF EDITORIAL
Updated Sep 12, 2023

From the World Trade Center in Manhattan to the Pentagon in Washington, the official commemorations of Sept. 11, 2001, marked a horrific day seared on the minds of Americans.

Editorial: When high-speed chases end tragically, questions must be answered

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 11, 2023

At the very least, it was bad judgment on New Year’s Eve, of all times, to send officers on a high-speed chase in a petty stolen car case.

Editorial: Enough about the Pontalba apartment, let's get back to business

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 11, 2023

If Mayor LaToya Cantrell has one less perk, however much she is protective of each and every one, the loss of mayoral domain over a Pontalba apartment on Jackson Square isn’t going to be any t…

Editorials: Drought sounds alarm for sugar cane farmers

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 11, 2023

The sight of tall stalks of sugar cane being bundled together for harvest has always been the picture of fall in south Louisiana. But this year the cane is shorter than it normally is, and far…

Editorial: Conflict of interests in Gulf's energy future

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 10, 2023

Those of us who live on the Gulf of Mexico are aware of its beauties and its benefits, but may not as often think of how it’s at the center of the world’s energy future, even as that important…

Editorial: Coach Kelly should search for more ‘balance’ in his comments on academics

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 8, 2023

Brian Kelly has not been walking back his comments on academics at LSU.

Editorial: Rapidly intensifying storms are the climate-driven new normal

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 7, 2023

If we didn't have enough experience with the Gulf of Mexico’s new normal, Hurricane Idalia?served up another lesson in just how fast storms can crank up in the warm water.

Editorial: Jimmy Buffett was special, and he thought the same of us

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 6, 2023

What we’ll remember best about our old friend Jimmy Buffett was on full display in 2012.

Editorial: Louisiana tourism is roaring back after pandemic, but state must welcome all

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 5, 2023

None of us in Louisiana, especially those of us proud of our hospitality and spirit of joie de vivre, cheered the loss of tourism in our state in the dark days after the deadly coronavirus arrived.

Editorial: The precious hours off the grinding wheels of work

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 4, 2023

Editor's note: This newspaper has published this editorial, with variations, on previous holidays.

Editorial: A barbecue ban comes at a bad time, but it's for a good reason

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 3, 2023

Maybe it seems almost un-American to not have an outdoor grill roaring on?Labor Day weekend, but there’s an extraordinary circumstance this year: towering infernos of fire across the state of …

Quin Hillyer: Don't count on today's frontrunners to be sure things

BY QUIN HILLYER
Updated Sep 3, 2023

History shows it is nonsense to assume that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump each have a lock on their respective parties’ 2024 presidential nominations.

Editorial: Trade barriers will hurt Louisiana and the nation

STAFF EDITORIAL
Sep 1, 2023

As a congressman and senator from Texas, the economist Phil Gramm used to tell his colleagues that 95% of Americans benefit every day from free trade, but that the 5% who don’t really know it.

Editorial: John Bel Edwards has been the voice of calm in many a storm

STAFF EDITORIAL
Aug 31, 2023

In just over four months, under the Louisiana Constitution, John Bel Edwards will no longer be governor.

Editorial: Prayers and support for our own, Steve Scalise

STAFF EDITORIAL
Aug 30, 2023

When you live in the fishbowl of politics, you can’t even face health challenges without it getting attention.