Opinions

Four’s a charm for La. Speaker of the House

as a legislator and Baton Rouge and now as an important congressman.Steve was shot at a congressional baseball practice in 2017, and came close to losing his life.But he made a strong comeback and took over the role of majority leader, the same position held by Hale Boggs.

COMMON SENSE

It took four Louisiana congressmen 51 years before one of them became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Second line to being president, a responsibility and honor that very few receive. Finally, after all this time, an obscure young congressman from Shreveport made it.

State treasurer comments on Amendment No. 2

As a longtime proponent of making government less complicated and more user-friendly for taxpayers, State Treasurer John M. Schroder encourages voters’ close review and consideration of Amendment No. 2 on Nov. 18.

Louisiana center of the political universe?

Remember the story about the dog chasing cars until he finally caught one? Now what does he do? If ever there was a time in Louisiana history when Republican elected officials all over the state “finally caught one,” now is the time.

The superpower that can’t arm itself

No matter how much we'd like to believe in the inevitably of human progress and the spread of enlightened norms, we've learned the past couple of years that we still need artillery shells lots of artillery shells.