Tenure and Academic Freedom: Victims of Judicial Misconduct? Imagine playing in a tennis match. You have played three of five sets and won two of them. It is your opponent’s turn to serve. They serve a fault. The judge motions for them to serve again. The...
Gun Bills By Pamela Mitchell, CAE
Executive Director
Louisiana Press Association
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, should go down in history as the day the Second Amendment trumped the First Amendment i...
La. rice industry deserves better These are unsettling times in the rice industry and for rice farmers in our state and across the nation. We are facing a farm bill that will eliminate direct payments next year and make our bottom...
Letter to the Editor: My right to bear arms When I was a kid, my dad taught me to aim and properly shoot a 22 rifle. I grew up with guns in our home and never once did we have an accident. Just knowing we had a handgun made us as a large fam...
Lewis family thanks all who helped in search for son *EDITOR'S NOTE: Jacob Lewis, 28, of Walker, went missing Jan. 31 near the Belle River Landing in Assumption Parish after returning by boat with his wife from scouting locations to set crawfish t...
Letter to the Editor - Keep La. Beautiful Dear Editor,
With the coming of a new year, many of us take the opportunity to make resolutions -- about losing weight, working a little harder at our jobs or spending more time with family.
One r...
Opinion Letter: Publicize school letter grades of RSD I have been reading about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s promoting the Recovery School District (RSD) as an example of the success of his educational reform package. I am not sure how Jindal qualifies “succes...
Letter to the Editor: Zachary Public Cemetery Letter to the Editor
RE: Zachary Public Cemetery
Received via e-mail Dec. 14
This is no newfangled cemetery with lots of bells and whistles. It is still a simple country cemetery where men with sh...
Letter: Louisiana needs an exchange (By U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu – Dec. 11)
In his first interview after the November elections, Gov. Bobby Jindal called for an end to what he called “dumbed-down conservatism” and “bumper-sticker ...