Seventy-five sugar mills operating in Louisiana in 1800 produced 5 million pounds of sugar that sold for 8 cents a pound, netting about $400,000 to the planters.
When Louisiana defended its congressional map at the U.S. Supreme Court back in March, Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguiñaga told justices that state officials “would rather not be here.”
Berwick Bay and the rivers running from it were busy places in the middle 1800s, and in the view of a St. Mary Parish newspaper editor were the gateway to paradise.
We could kick off this exercise by pointing to the Republican supermajority in the Louisiana Legislature. Or we could explore how the GOP exclusively holds every statewide elected office.
George Lewis Moscovis was known to his fellow World War II airmen as a hard-working, clean-living, God-fearing man who carried a Bible on every combat mission.
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