+2 Stephanie Grace: If schools must post Ten Commandments, let’s at least talk about them BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist 9 hrs ago If there’s a silver lining to the appearance of posters outlining the Ten Commandments on schoolhouse walls across h this fall, it’s that they may be quickly fading into the figurative…
+2 Will Sutton: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is the winner of a Thumbs Down Award. Where do you stand? BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Aug 21, 2026 In broadcasting, there’s something called a Q score. To put it simply, it measures brand recognition across various demographics, likability versus polarization and trust. The Q score is one o…
+2 Faimon Roberts: Three elections will determine whether St. Tammany remains stuck BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Aug 18, 2026 St. Tammany is headed for a year of reckoning.
+2 Stephanie Grace: Landry’s trashing New Orleans? Must be election time. BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist Updated Aug 16, 2026 In the beginning of Jeff Landry’s quest to become governor of Louisiana in 2023, there was New Orleans.
Faimon Roberts: This random house in Alexandria looks like blight. Here’s why it should be preserved. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Aug 16, 2026 Vegetation and neglect are trying to erase a little-known — but important — link between h and the Harlem Renaissance, the Black cultural and intellectual movement that blossomed in the 1920s.
+5 Will Sutton: A New Orleans elected official will withdraw his reelection campaign, retire BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Aug 11, 2026 Lambert Boissiere III was elected to the Orleans Parish First District constable seat in 1997 and took office in 1998. He continued serving in that capacity until 2005, when he was elected to …
+3 Stephanie Grace: Even with one foot out of office, Bill Cassidy keeps caving BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist Aug 8, 2026 I come here to, once again, voice deep disappointment that U.S.. Sen Bill Cassidy declined to act on his legitimate, serious concerns over a deeply flawed Donald Trump nominee.
+5 Will Sutton: Former Dillard president leaving UNCF will give fundraising secrets to select HBCUs BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Aug 7, 2026 Dr. Michael Lomax became president of Dillard University in New Orleans in 1997. He increased enrollment at the Jewel of Gentilly by about 50%. Fundraising tripled. Some reports say private gi…
Faimon Roberts: LaMont Cole still may be innocent, but texts sure make him look guilty BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Aug 7, 2026 Say this for Baton Rouge schools Superintendent LaMont Cole: He communicates clearly.
+4 Faimon Roberts: Mind-numbingly boring? Maybe, but LA’s ‘great connector’ deserves its flowers. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Aug 7, 2026 It’s not often that one can offer unreserved praise for a piece of Louisiana infrastructure.
+3 Will Sutton: Listen to Ben Crump closely. In Nolan Wells’ death, maybe race isn’t the issue. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Aug 5, 2026 It’s been more than a month since the lifeless body of Nolan Wells was found just off of Horn Island, Mississippi. Before the Fourth of July, most people outside of the Ocean Springs, Mississi…
Faimon Roberts: LSU’s big-money move shows where college sports is headed BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Aug 4, 2026 This week, Gov. Jeff Landry and LSU President Wade Rousse will convene a pair of private meetings with top donors to LSU’s sports programs to lay out a new revenue model that could “change the…
Faimon Roberts: In Meta comments to NYT, Gov. Landry’s words and actions line up BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Aug 2, 2026 In one area at least, what Gov. Jeff Landry says and what he does are absolutely consistent.
+5 Will Sutton: h ranks dead last again. For better or worse, here’s why I won’t leave. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jul 31, 2026 In yet another ranking, the state of Louisiana is last. Dead last.
+6 Will Sutton: New Orleans officials made a strategic mistake in latest scuffle with state BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jul 29, 2026 We’ve been through a lot in recent weeks. There’s been some head-spinning, toe-tapping, neck-throwing, lip-smacking moments as the guv, the AG, the mayor, the DA and City Council members point…
+2 Stephanie Grace: Scorched-earth politics come to h, and we’re all worse off for it BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist Updated Jul 26, 2026 If anyone was relieved when the New Orleans officials who’d been threatened with removal by Attorney General Liz Murrill offered an olive branch last week, it was short-lived.
+5 Will Sutton: Welcome Cleo Fields back to a place where he shouldn't be BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jul 29, 2026 U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields campaigned and earned the title of congressman twice in his career. And he’s lost the title twice.
+2 Faimon Roberts: In City Hall’s latest St. George drama, the barbs are coming from inside the house BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Jul 24, 2026 To the surprise and delight of no one, the fight over St. George is back. But this time, the verbal bullets are flying between members of city-parish government, with the Metro Council and par…
Faimon Roberts: Despite legislators’ moos, raw milk law has been detrimental to public health BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Jul 24, 2026 The h Legislature has sometimes been accused of having a herd mentality. One time it was literally true.
+4 Will Sutton: Nolan Wells’ death strikes a chord when you’ve been the only Black person in a room BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jul 29, 2026 Nolan Wells has been laid to rest, but the court of public opinion is not at rest.
+3 On the Record with Mark Cooper: 'FEMA is not going away' Updated Jul 21, 2026 Bossier City native Mark Cooper led the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness under Gov. Bobby Jindal and served as chief of staff for Gov. John Bel Edwards. Now a …
+29 Photos: Nolan Wells remembered at memorial service marked by grief, questions and a call for answers By CHRIS GRANGER | Staff photographer Jul 20, 2026 Read more: Al Sharpton, Tyler Perry together offer $100,000 for tips tied to death of Nolan Wells
+4 Will Sutton: Legislature, governor want New Orleans to play by the same rules — until they don’t BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jul 29, 2026 So many of us have focused so much on the Orleans Parish judicial cuts passed by the h Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry that I think most of us missed the drama behi…
+2 Stephanie Grace: Gov. Jeff Landry knows darn well that New Orleans is special BY STEPHANIE GRACE | Staff columnist Updated Jul 17, 2026 “That parish.”
Faimon Roberts: Jury duty, a completely unglamorous but essential service BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Jul 17, 2026 There’s nothing glamorous about the jury pool room on the third floor of the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center. Its off-white walls, beige chairs and fluorescent lights are almost the platonic…
+6 Will Sutton: h Haitians are caught in a federal flurry of deportation decisions BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Jul 15, 2026 A short time ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Trump administration can send thousands of people home to their native countries. Actually, we’re talking more than 1 million people. …
Faimon Roberts: Justice in Murrill saga requires an open courtroom BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Jul 10, 2026 Irrespective of the legal merits of the recent New Orleans grand jury’s indictment of Attorney General Liz Murrill, one thing is beyond question: What transpired in the courtroom and hallway b…
+5 Will Sutton: An improved Essence Festival deserves financial investment BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jul 29, 2026 The early reports about the Essence Festival of Culture are in, and the multiple-event was far better than the 2025 fest.