Columns

Energy dominance without sacrificing safety

Contrary to recent misleading reports, neither the Department of the Interior nor our agency, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, is weakening offshore safety or environmental rules.

Raw water: Threat or menace?

Thirty-plus years ago, aunt Addie Lee dropped in on the farmhouse that my parents used for storage and family cookouts. She quaffed a glass of sparkling tap water and waxed eloquent about how our good ol’ spring water put to shame the over-processed H2O from the municipal water works.

Saban the best there ever was?

I don’t normally write a sports column, but a few words would seem appropriate after Alabama’s startling victory this past Monday night in the College Football Championship game.

Sock it to me: ‘Laugh-In’ turns 50

Am I excited about the upcoming (January 22) 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking NBC comedy-variety series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”? You bet your sweet bippy!

Frigid winter SAD for anti-Trumpers

Boy, it’s cold across America. It’s so cold, politicians are picking their own pockets, people are flocking inside the U.S. Capitol just for the hot air, and the outlook for anti-Trumpers has been downgraded from miserable and bewildered to hopelessly depressed.

Fiscal cliff: The elephant in the room

EDITORS NOTE: This is the second of a series of articles on the Fiscal Cliff crisis facing Louisiana today. Louisiana is facing a $1 billion fiscal cliff this July, and our political leaders have yet to provide a solution.

The rise and fall of LSU

There has been a lot of bad news out of LSU, Louisiana’s flagship university in recent weeks, and not just on the football field where the Tigers have completed a mediocre season, even though they have the highest salaried group of coaches in the nation.

It’s winter! Get with the program!

Much of the nation has been suffering from a cold snap of epic proportions, but there are always a few jokers who don’t get the message.

We all could use a little work

Ah yes, it is that time of year again where we all end up giving ourselves “the talk.” You know the one I am referencing… that tough talk where we make new year resolutions, either publicly or privately, to do things a little bit better starting January 1st.

Reformed, but not simplified

If only tax simplification were true. You see, one of the promises of the Republican tax-reform bill was that taxes would become way simpler for the majority of Americans to file — that we’d be able to file our taxes on a form the size of a postcard — but that isn’t entirely so.