Analysis: Election-year sessions often high talk, low action
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Election-year legislative sessions in Louisiana aren't typically known for...
Kennedy: Stop Silencing Victims
This should be no country – or state – for creepy old men.
That’s why I’m sponsoring legislation to...
Fiscal responsibility or nonsense?
State lawmakers will convene the regular legislative session beginning Monday. Under normal circumstances, you would expect a hum-drum affair over the following...
The illusion and cost of drug rebates
By: Peter J. Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner, is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
Analysis: Non-budget controversies loom in Louisiana session
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After 10 legislative sessions across three years, you'd think...
Waguespack: Lessons from our Founding Fathers
This weekend, my wife and I took a day trip to New Orleans to check out the musical “Hamilton.” The Broadway hit...
Hanna: ’79 was a good year
Forty years ago, then-Gov. Edwin Edwards was wrapping up his second term in office.
While state law prohibited...
Bastrop newspaper closure strikes close to home
This one struck a little too close to home.
After 150 years, The Bastrop Daily Enterprise in Morehouse Parish,...
’79 was a good year
Sam Hanna Jr.
Sam Hanna Jr. | Special to the Minden Press-Herald
Forty years ago,...