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Walt Handelsman: No end in sight

BY WALT HANDELSMAN | Staff editorial cartoonist
6 hrs ago

Will Sutton: St. Mary's Academy is a model of Black excellence. The school needs your help.

BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist
Updated 10 hrs ago

St. Mary's Academy has been making Black girls' dreams come true for decades. You know a number of their graduates.

Letters: ESAs are an existential threat to public education

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20 hrs ago

The ESA proposed bill is our local Republicans' latest attempt to decimate public education by starving it of nutrients. It might be worth noting, because some seem to have forgotten, the law …

Letters: Why Jefferson Parish needs to close the smoking loophole

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20 hrs ago

Currently, there are still places where residents in Jefferson Parish go out to unwind and have fun — bars and casinos — that are currently not smoke-free. A recent article by Marie Fazio stat…

Letters: Insurance middlemen harm those with chronic illness

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20 hrs ago

For people living with chronic and complex illnesses, consistent treatment access is critical to stay healthy. However, burdensome practices from insurance industry middlemen are creating unne…

State rep: Only through collaboration can we fix S&WB

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20 hrs ago

Recently, there has been a buzz among political insiders about my role as a freshman representative filing a placeholder bill aimed at providing one year of oversight for the Sewerage & Wa…

Letters: Fiscal conservatives don't spend money like Landry is

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20 hrs ago

Here is why I question Gov. Jeff Landry being a fiscally responsible leader. One month into his term and he proposes to give all senior cabinet secretaries raises of about $50,000. The individ…

Letters: Campus protests are being stirred by outsiders

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20 hrs ago

The horrific scenes of unrest on college campuses across the country are disturbing. These outbreaks can no longer be called peaceful protests. They are hate-filled diatribes against Jewish st…

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Editorial: New Xavier medical school is good for Louisiana

STAFF EDITORIAL
21 hrs ago

The partnership between Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana to create a new medical school in New Orleans is a welcome development for the city and Louisiana.

Walt Handelsman: Virtual graduations 2024

BY WALT HANDELSMAN | Staff editorial cartoonist
May 6, 2024

Letters: System that makes it easy for teens to carry guns is bankrupt

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
May 6, 2024

In a time when blood and tears flow in our cities and towns in Louisiana, how can our government officials and system be so compromised, broken and confused to allow 18-year-olds and older to …

Clancy DuBos: Gov. Jeff Landry’s constitutional 'refresh' faces hurdles

BY CLANCY DuBOS
Updated 14 hrs ago

Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan for a limited, rapid-fire constitutional convention will face its biggest test Tuesday afternoon, when the governor once again tries to convince two-thirds of the House…

Letters: Wars cost money, and U.S. needs to trim the fat

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
May 6, 2024

Will the U.S. never learn? Ever since Eisenhower took the Vietnam battle handoff in 1957, most of our interventions have been costly and ultimately ineffective.

Letters: More police presence isn't accomplishing goal of safer society

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
May 6, 2024

The fundamental premise of Roland Gallatin's April 10 letter is that lower crime requires stronger police presence. However, law enforcement officials respond only after crimes have occurred.

Letters: Nitrogen hypoxia in executions doesn't equate to what Nazis did

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Updated May 6, 2024

Jews Against Gassing, a group that claims to represent the Jewish community, showed up on April 16 at the Louisiana State Capitol to support a Senate Bill 430 that would exclude nitrogen gas f…

Letters: ESAs will be final nail in the coffin for Louisiana public schools

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Updated May 6, 2024

Louisiana’s 16-year slog to defund public education began with former Gov. Bobby Jindal. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said his worst scam was allowing donations of unlimited f…

Letters: Teach the kids about Mardi Gras etiquette early

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Updated May 6, 2024

Kevin Allman's poem about the Krewe of Chad needs to be an illustrated book published for New Orleanians to buy their children. If we don't teach them right from wrong, then they grow up to be…

Randy Ewing: Here's why the summer EBT program matters to Louisiana

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Updated May 6, 2024

I offer this letter in praise of Senate President Cameron Henry, House Speaker Phillip DeVillier and members of the Legislature, who have secured funding of the Summer EBT program.

Can you come up with the funniest punchline for Walt Handelsman's newest Cartoon Caption Contest? Give it a try today!

BY WALT HANDELSMAN | Staff editorial cartoonist
May 5, 2024

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Editorial: With summer EBT deal, state shows united front to feed kids

STAFF EDITORIAL
Updated May 6, 2024

Sometimes common sense prevails.

Quin Hillyer: Louisiana ruling shows folly of Supreme Court’s redistricting decisions

BY QUIN HILLYER
May 4, 2024

In its reasonable decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress …

Stephanie Grace: Governors and mayors have lots of power; views on Landry and Cantrell shouldn't change how much

BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist
May 4, 2024

Louisiana has a new governor and New Orleans has a lame duck mayor, but Jeff Landry and LaToya Cantrell have an important thing in common: They each inhabit an office that comes with a lot of power.

Walt Handelsman: Stone Age

BY WALT HANDELSMAN | Staff editorial cartoonist
May 4, 2024

Will Sutton: I lost my chair at Jazz Fest. Did you "lose" yours?

BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist
Updated 12 hrs ago

Tens of thousands go to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival each year. Some go every single day. WHO are these people? Some pick a few days. Some choose one day to have fun, hear good m…

Letters log April 25- May 2: One hot-button issue drew some nuanced responses

BY ARNESSA GARRETT | Managing editor
Updated May 6, 2024

Many of the letters we get have strong points of view on one side or the other of a debate. That’s not surprisinggenerally those who take the time to go to their computer and compose a letter …

Will Sutton: Pro-Palestinian protests can succeed without violence

BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist
Updated 12 hrs ago

We've seen pro-Palestitian protests at LSU, Tulane University, in New Orleans' French Quarter, at Columbia University and elsewhere. More than 2,000 have been arrested across the nation. Some …

Guest column: Louisiana's leaders should champion vaccines and children's health

BY TREY N. PARKER AND TAMMY RIDER
May 3, 2024

It’s been more than 60 years since The Advocate (then called The Morning Advocate) published a story about the Boy Scouts volunteering their time to help get kids vaccinated against the polio …

Richard Nelson: A constitutional convention should be a priority

BY RICHARD NELSON
Updated May 2, 2024

When writing the U.S. Constitution, the Framers declared their objective to “secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” Had they been drafting Louisiana’s constitution, …