Jim Bradshaw: To boldly go to Pecan Island
Tue, 06/02/2026 - 10:07am
By JIM BRADSHAW
Could Pecan Island become the next Cape Canaveral?
Columns
Jim Brown: New recreational season means it's time to go gator hunting
Fri, 05/29/2026 - 6:00am
Big news from the Louisiana Legislature.
A new law has been passed that will allow a season for the recreational hunting of alligators.
Jeremy Alford and David Jacobs: Lawmakers hope to slow growth in mobile betting
Fri, 05/29/2026 - 6:00am
While the Louisiana Legislature has embraced mobile sports wagering in recent years, legislators have used the ongoing regular session to tap the brakes on other forms of online gaming.
Jim Bradshaw: 'Sporting proclivities' brought down a sheriff
Wed, 05/27/2026 - 6:00am
The year 1904 was a hard one for Sheriff John Addison Perkins of Calcasieu Parish, which then stretched all the way from the Sabine to the Mermentau River.
Jim Bradshaw: CCC workers built parks, dug ditches, ate well
Fri, 05/22/2026 - 6:00am
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s first and most successful relief programs during the Great Depression, flourished in Louisiana between 1933 and 1942, ev