Editorial

Why can’t singers just sing, and actors just act? Why do they always have to enter the realm of politics? It is an area very few celebrities are knowledgeable about and most just spew ridiculous left-wing talking points.
A perfect example is 80-year-old actor Robert De Niro, a highly acclaimed film star with a career that has spanned decades. For most of his career, he did not have a reputation as a far-left fanatic like Jane Fonda or Barbara Streisand. However, all of that changed with the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign.

Don’t look now but the unemployment rate creeped up again to 3.9 percent in April, the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, rising from its April 2023 low of 3.4 percent.
With it, the unemployment level itself is up 777,000 to nearly 6.5 million. A year ago, it was 5.7 million.

Does the average Louisiana citizen have a legal right to follow the internal workings of government in Louisiana? Not just in Baton Rouge at the state capital, but in deliberations that take place by school boards, city councils, police juries and any other sanctioned public body? For the past 50 years, open meetings and public records availability we’re stronger in the Bayou State than any other place in the country.