( The Center Square ) - Drive down Louisiana Highway 1 on any given morning and you'll see it: pickups and work trucks rolling south before the sun comes up, heading toward Port Fourchon. These are …

Our kids can’t sign a check. The GPS led me the wrong way. Just let artificial intelligence write the emails. Whether spoken with amusement or frustration, these familiar phrases reveal …

( The Center Square ) - As Americans prepare to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, there will be no shortage of fireworks, parades, speeches and reflections on our history. Those celebrations …

WASHINGTON ( AP ) — Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal information to scams, according to  a new …

( The Center Square ) — In his book, Inventing America , the liberal scholar Garry Wills argued that the Declaration owed much to previous Anglo-American history. This is correct. English …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) - The abolitionist and  writer Frederick Douglass  is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — Caroline Morrison-Howard has lived on Littlefield Avenue in Central for decades, inside the Plantation Way subdivision.  That neighborhood name choice has …

( The Center Square ) - The Gulf of America produces about 15 percent of America's oil and sends billions of dollars in royalties to the federal treasury every year. It is one of the nation's most …

( The Center Square ) – The European Union is preparing yet another initiative aimed at reducing its reliance on American technology. The effort comes at a time when the United States and …

( The Center Square ) - During the first few weeks of Operation Epic Fury, many prematurely predicted that Russia would benefit from the conflict. With U.S. weapons originally bound for Ukraine …

( The Center Square ) - When the Louisiana Legislature wraps up its session each year, the rest of the state tends to move on. Lawmakers pack up their offices, reporters file their final wrap-ups, …

( The Center Square ) – When Lee Ann Sommerville took a Charleston, West Virginia chemical plant to court last year, she framed her case as a public health crisis. Sommerville claimed she had been …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — Most Louisiana parents never have to think about what happens when measles or whooping cough shows up at school.  That is not luck. It is the result of school …

( The Center Square ) — American electricity bills are rising at the fastest pace in two decades, and the grid is straining under demand it wasn’t designed to meet. Data centers chasing the AI …

( The Center Square ) — Louisiana lawmakers have spent the past several weeks listening to public testimony and hearing directly from their constituents about specific budget needs, including in …

( The Center Square ) – For years, litigators, activists and scientific experts have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the litany of local lawsuits related to the herbicide …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — After nearly 10 hours of overnight testimony and debate, the outcome of the Louisiana Legislature’s latest redistricting committee meeting felt less like a decision …

( The Center Square ) – Imagine spending weeks gathering documents, navigating an application, verifying numbers, and doing everything right, all because you desperately want a better educational …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) - Maybe it’s buyer’s remorse. After Louisiana officials welcomed hyperscale data centers with extractive tax rebates and secretive dealings, a bipartisan wave of …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — How many children in the United States have to drown before the other 49 states follow Louisiana’s lead? Five children have drowned in America in the past week …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — When gunfire erupted Thursday afternoon at the food court in the Mall of Louisiana, law enforcement flooded the scene with lights and sirens. Baton Rouge Police Chief …

Youth sports are one of the great proving grounds in life. They teach discipline, teamwork, resilience, and character. But as someone who has spent a lifetime caring for athletes at every level, I …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and, five years later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill made it clear to everyone that unless something monumental was done about the …

( Louisiana Illuminator ) — Sunday’s fatal shooting of eight children in Shreveport, and the figurative and literal pain of their mothers, will linger like a persistent heartbeat. The …

( The Center Square ) — You may have seen Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the news recently, but what are they? Essentially, they are negotiators in the pharmaceutical supply chain. They …