Columns
Jeremy Alford and David Jacobs: After a dozen years, no new amendments in 2025
Wed, 06/25/2025 - 6:00am
By JEREMY ALFORD and DAVID JACOBS
For the first time since 2013, Louisiana’s increasingly swollen constitution won’t be expanded this year.
Jim Bradshaw: Circus meant roaring lions, barking dogs
Wed, 06/25/2025 - 6:00am
When Ambaugh’s Great Menagerie and Circus visited South Louisiana in 1878, newspaper ads promised that “you will see many strange animals never before on exhibition, and in the Circus many daring
David Jacobs and Jeremy Alford: 2025 session will be remembered for Landry's influence
Fri, 06/20/2025 - 6:00am
A compressed two-month fiscal session will probably always feel a little hectic.
Jim Bradshaw: Castex found opportunity on the Mermentau
Wed, 06/18/2025 - 6:00am
When Jean Castex started a small general store on the Mermentau River, the town that grew up around it was little more than a crossing point for brave travelers on the Old Spanish Trail.