Columns

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance to Louisiana residents facing food insecurity.

Does the average Louisiana citizen have a legal right to follow the internal workings of government in Louisiana?

Louisiana’s next budget for the 2025-2026 year will be under much stress as it will lose significant federal funding as well as the temporary 0.45% sales tax that will also expire.

It took more than three hours for 8,000 soldiers and a thousand-plus trucks to move through Opelousas on Saturday, May 11, 1940, and they were moving as quickly as they could.

John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles In Courage,” a series of essays that focused on eight senators throughout U.S.

The National Day of Prayer is on May 2nd this year. I surely need to get better at praying.
Like a lot of people, I don’t pray until things go sour or I have some daunting challenge heading my way.

Editor’s note: A version of this column was published in 2017.
Social media is driving up the cost of proms, as promgoers are under intense pressure to post glamourous prom photos on their feeds, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The venerable comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is wrapping up a storyline in which the dastardly assistant mayor schemed to change the town’s name from Gasoline Alley to the ostensibly more modern Electric Acres (without even offering a compromise suc

In a recent column about early baseball rivalries, I noted that the Orange Hoo-Hoos were one of the teams in the short-lived Gulf Coast League in the early 1900s. That prompted a reader to ask, “Why would a team have such a silly name?”

John Paul II once stated that “there can be no rule of law … unless citizens and especially leaders are convinced that there is no freedom without truth.”