Library Chronicles

The election is over. Our state's political press corps should have plenty time to go back to Jennings and investigate Ethan Brown's...

And then John Kennedy is here to tell you what that tastes like . “For those of you who didn’t vote for me, I want to be your senator too...

Would you believe John Bel ? Having come in to office facing a $1 billion shortfall for last fiscal year and a $2 billion hole for this o...

The big spills get all the attention but the little spills and leaks are the chronic problem.  “There’s two ways things go bad,” says Eust...

During a cameo appearance at what was ostensibly his own campaign rally, John Kennedy introduced Trump in Baton Rouge on Friday. Trump went ...

We're privatizing education anyway. Might as well get ahead of the curve . New Orleans may soon be the first city to have an all- char...

Or maybe it's too early to start the next argument. The fundamental problem for Foster Campbell in this Senate runoff doesn't have a...

There are a lot of to-go options available along the St. Charles Avenue parade route.  This year there will be one fewer . St. Charles ...

Donald Trump is an excellent negotiator . Then, a couple of weeks ago, Trump got involved . He sat down with Carrier leaders. Afterward, ...

Of all the insults inflicted on us by this year in politics, Senator John Neely Kennedy might be the worst. NEW ORLEANS - Republican John...

Steve Scalise seems to think Louisiana might be done asking for flood relief money already .  Officials have estimated that the state suff...

Poor Bobby Jindal. He did everything an aspiring GOP big timer has to do to get elected or appointed to national office these days.  He alwa...

The lame duck congress is poised to allocate more flood relief funding for Louisiana this week . Louisiana is in line to get more than $1 ...

Can't have our homeless shelter mucking up the scenery . Gotta protect the precious eyes of Airbnb tourists and real estate investors T...

They're sending Trump in to stump . WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump plans to head to Louisiana to campaign Friday for Republ...

Remember those two legislative sessions this year when a bunch of whiny babies couldn't raise enough money to fix the state budget?  Yea...

Looks like the Campbell campaign could have used a few more purple party buses . Early voting was sluggish in advance of this weekend'...

Perhaps not so surprisingly, we are . Dakota Access LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, is building the 1,172-mile, 30-inch di...

The Louisiana Senate race between Foster Campbell and John Kennedy is the last seat to be decided in the next Congress. It's getting a l...

Weird, huh . It is also not clear how broad Landry's complaint about the LGBT protections might be. In court Tuesday, his legal team ...

Even if Wendy doesn't end up with this job,  David Vitter really like had the last laugh this year  Though her husband will no longer ...

Always good for a laugh. To me, Friedman has always been Exhibit A in a version of the "Banality of evil" argument. Yes, he is t...

Stuart "Neil" Fisher is a goddamned hero . A developer whose company failed in a bid to convert the former World Trade Center b...

Via the Wa-Po , we present, Git Yer Gubmint Hands Off Mah Medicare starring Donald Trump. And yet, here they come for your Medicare .

Joke's on us, America.  Because, surely, none among us could have predicted ..... WASHINGTON — Steven Terner Mnuchin, a financier wit...

Matt Taibbi interviews Bernie Sanders in the new Rolling Stone . They talk about a lot of stuff but Bernie's most crucial message here i...

Council is voting on this tomorrow. The ordinance still has to come up for another key vote of approval on Dec. 1. The current recommenda...

Just reading the description of this system and the confidence its keepers appear to have in it makes me nervous. Those familiar with the...

Billy Nungesser may not be very bright but he sure knows who his friends are .  Lt. Billy Nungesser told the Monroe News Star that the mas...

Bobby had practically everything Donald Trump could have asked for in a Secretary of Health and Human Services. He knew how to privatize pu...

Twelfth Night is getting kind of crowded. We usually walk out and wave at the Phunny Phorty Phellows blow by on their streetcar.  We do tha...

I don't have a real joke here. It's just that Foster Campbell is kind of a goofball . “I’m Foster Campbell , and I live on a farm...

The Trump years are gonna be fun. Which of these are we going to decide we're no longer going to even go through the motions of attempti...