Oct
21
2018
The truism that elections have consequences will never be more accurate than this Nov. 6 when residents living in the congressional districts of U.S. Reps. Steve Scalise, Clay Higgins and Garret Graves go to the polls.
This includes all or...
Oct
07
2018
After covering (and living) Louisiana's coastal crisis for decades, the most common question I get these days is this one: When will we know if state's coastal master plan will succeed?
Well, a solid answer can finally be given: In...
Sep
02
2018
Bulletin: Washington -- House majority whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) yesterday told members of his Metairie, La., district that he would be placing them and his own family into a pool of 1,400 Americans who would die premature deaths in...
Aug
19
2018
What would the nation's environmental policies look like if voters decided who ran our environmental agencies? Here's why I ask that question -- and a possible solution.
For years opinion polls have consistently shown the overwhelming majority of Americans want...
Aug
05
2018
There's a big mistake on Congressman Steve Scalise's webpage.
Right under his name it reads: "Proudly Representing the 1st District of Louisiana."
But that can't possibly be true because, two weeks ago, Scalise helped write and push through the House a...
Jul
22
2018
If you're paying a mortgage on a house south of Interstate10, I have some bad news for you. For that matter, if you own a business, work or play south of that line (I'm thinking hunting and fishing) the...
Jul
08
2018
Any chance south Louisiana has to stay above the Gulf of Mexico after 2050 now likely lies in the hands of Louisiana's two U.S. senators: John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy.
That wasn't the case before the past week. Until then the...
Jun
17
2018
Anyone truly concerned about the future of Louisiana's bottom third should know how to read national headlines using a Bayou Country translation. That's because what might not be big news in Kansas (or even Shreveport) could be a death...
Jun
03
2018
In the week since reading colleague Mark Schleifstein's report that the Army Corps of Engineers has known for years its latest New Orleans levee system contains potentially fatal flaws, I've been unable to shake two famous quotes from this...
May
20
2018
The question for this week: What kind of person wants to change laws and regulations so your children are exposed to eating, drinking and breathing more poisons? What kind of person thinks you support the idea of gambling on...
