Truth With A Little Mud On It

Baton Rouge’s own Boosie Badazz is in trouble again. Houston trouble this time. Hookah trouble, specifically. According to authorities, the rapper, born Torrence Hatch Jr., known professionally as Boosie Badazz, known to the Harris County justice system as a defendant, allegedly struck a security guard in the head with a glass hookah at a Houston nightclub. He now faces assault charges.

Boosie Badazz, American Mentor

Bob Cornyn and Bill Cassidy woke up, tired and anxious, after having the same dream last night. They were both back in high school. MAGA High School. A place they used to love. They were never big men on campus but they were big men adjacent, and that was good enough for them.

Tough Times at MAGA High

How Louisiana keeps selling itself to industry and calling it progress. I never met Joyce Piercy. I found her in a Fortune magazine story by Sharon Goldman, published this past March, tucked into the middle of a long piece about what a $27 billion data…

For Meta, Our Failings Are A Feature, Not A Bug

A Louisiana senator hurled a racial slur at a Democratic official. What followed was a press release. In the comments, a conversation broke out that I haven’t been able to shake. This is my answer.

There Is No Separate Hill

Memorial Day is a reminder of the debt we owe to those who gave all…. something we should ponder more than once a year. The families I came to know while writing this article years ago touched me deeply and I think of them often.…

Memorial Day 2026

He reminded me of a little banty rooster. Elderly, feisty, alert, coherently answering my questions as I worked through my assessment. HIPAA prevents me from providing details, but I can share that, in my EMT-Paramedic years, I provided care for one of Huey P. Long’s…

Mid-Sentence

The murder of Charlie Kirk was wrong. His death was unjustified, just as the hateful ideology he spread in life was unjustifiable. I despised his words, his cruelty, his ceaseless attempts to divide people. But I do not hate Charlie Kirk. I do not hate…

Hate Will Not Make Us Great

Nurses are the backbone of our healthcare delivery system. Yet they often grapple with the challenges of understaffing and long hours. In the chaos of busy hospitals, nursing unions emerge as beacons of hope by advocating for the nursing staff, championing patient safety, and promoting…

Nursing Unions Are Needed In Louisiana