Today’s Good News

Top chefs reached their level of recognition due to their adherence to ingredients and to-die-for recipes. I could never be a chef. However, if I wanted to try, I would make a famous Natchitoches meat pie.

LDEQ pledges cleanup of unmitigated sites

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Secretary Aurelia S. Giacometto traveled to Avoyelles Parish last week to continue to work on-site with the agency’s Tiger Team to craft the remediation of the Cottonport Monofill site, a longshuttered waste tire processing facility.This is the...

Health department confirms 3 deaths from severe weather

The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed three storm-related deaths resulting from severe weather on May 13.The St. Martin Parish coroner reports that a female died in Cecilia after a camper rolled over because of high winds.The West Baton Rouge Parish coroner reports that a 31-yearold...

Intensive rehabilitative services at new facility

The Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ )opened the new Swanson Center for Youth (SCY) at Monroe, marking a significant milestone in the state’s commitment to juvenile rehabilitation announced Deputy Secretary Kenneth Lofton.Designed in accordance with Act 693, the SCY exemplifies a Tier-1...

Veterans’ groups say governor should veto regulation bill

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry should veto legislation passed yesterday that will severely limit the quality of legal service that veterans can receive, leaders of a Louisiana-based national veterans advocacy organization said.Despite opposition from veterans and their advocates, the Legislature...

Biden is his own worst enemy; has collapse in standings

The only problem Biden has is that people think he’s a bad president President Joe Biden has suffered a collapse in his standing generally, but, fundamentally, it’s because so few people think he’s doing a good job that he’s in such a perilous state.Other than that, it’s going great.It’s hard to...

House GOP honors America’s fallen police officers

To kick off National Police Week, Speaker Johnson hosted a candlelight vigil and delivered remarks in the U.S. Capitol to honor fallen police officers and commemorate their service to our communities.Speaker Johnson was joined at the vigil by families of fallen officers and members of the House...

Get the politics out of reapportionment

If you want to witness political favoritism and inside political wheeling and dealing at its worst, just witness the mess that has been created by the legislature as well as federal judges in Louisiana.

AGs file suit related to accommodations for pregnant workers

Attorneys General Liz Murrill (Louisiana) and Lynn Fitch (Mississippi) filed suit today challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) attempt to hijack the protections of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to promote the Biden administration’s effort to impose a national abortion...

Nothing good comes from Columbia University radicalism

Columbia University is once again the center of the radical universe.More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968, anti-Israel agitators are disrupting the school’s operations, and inspiring similar actions at other universities around the country.In...