Columns

Americans could be like the frog in the pot of hot water

I hate to be cliché, but I’m going to tell you a proverb you’ve probably already heard a hundred or so times.
There was a frog, and he saw this pot of boiling water and said to himself, “I’m not going there. I’m not crazy.”

Who does Donald Trump sound like?

When the big issues are at stake, it seems like there’s always a Louisiana connection. The Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, the first shot of the Civil War was fired by a Louisiana Brigade.

A change of mind about homeschooling?

I realize such headgear has fallen out of style in our self-esteem-obsessed culture, but maybe I should belatedly don a dunce cap.

Paying attention pays off

Declining attention spans have reached epidemic levels.
That’s what Adam Brown, co-director of the Center for Attention, Learning and Memory at St. Bonaventure University in New York, tells Time.

Beauty and health stirred visionary engineer

Civil engineer B. H. Payne was hired in 1851 to study the possibilities of building a railroad from New Orleans into south Louisiana. He had never crossed the Mississippi River until then, but fell in love with what he saw once he did.

Auto insurance rates are a wreck

Headlines across Louisiana blared out in recent weeks that automobile insurance rates in the state will see a huge increase.

Agreeing with Kamala Harris

It’s hard to believe I agree with Kamala Harris about something.
Conservatives are often hesitant to criticize other conservatives.

Mississippi dwarfs Louisiana in educational reform

To get Louisiana off the bottom of the barrel when it comes to educational reform, nothing is more important than developing a preschool program that builds the foundation for young people to learn.

To aliens, human wisdom is unbelievable

Last week a whistleblower testified before Congress, alleging that federal officials have concealed evidence of unidentified flying objects from the public for decades.