Jim Bradshaw: First talkie viewers were curious but fickle
Wed, 06/26/2024 - 6:00am
Ville Platte might lay claim to being the first small town in South Louisiana to offer high quality talking movies.
Columns
Jeremy Alford and David Jacobs: La. politicos prep for conventions
Fri, 06/21/2024 - 6:00am
National conventions don’t really pick the presidential candidates anymore, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be drama later this summer when Republicans meet in July and Democrats follow suit in
Jim Bradshaw: You had to point the antenna exactly right
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 6:00am
The newspaper proclaimed that “all the wonders of science, except the atom bomb, have now been brought to Eunice” after Everett Vidrine installed a big antenna atop his West Laurel Street home in
Jim Brown: Appoint state judges? Federal experience argues otherwise
Wed, 06/19/2024 - 6:00am
Several business groups in Louisiana, including the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, have suggested that the state do away with the election of judges and the undue influence of cam
Jeremy Alford and David Jacobs: La.'s secretary of state faces first big election cycle
Fri, 06/14/2024 - 6:00am
During her first statewide campaign last year, Secretary of State Nancy Landry was sometimes asked if she was related to the gubernatorial frontrunner, or if she was the candidate named Landry run