Before Teacher Shield is needed, provide resources to prevent aggression
Act 141 aims to protect Louisiana educators by removing students who assault school employees.
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
Trump approval of a gigantic offshore Louisiana LNG port ignores significant risks
Constructing the massive Delfin LNG deepwater export terminal 40 miles off the Louisiana coast could threaten protected marine life, exacerbate the state’s already poor air quality, and contribute to heating our planet, writes attorney Lauren Parker of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.
The future of farming cannot be built on forced labor
Louisiana deserves a correctional system that prepares people for successful re-entry, an agricultural system built on dignity rather than exploitation and a public conversation honest enough to recognize that slavery's legacy is not only in the past.
Industrial pollution linked to learning disabilities in New Orleans area
As Louisiana’s petrochemical industrial facilities expand, the children that live near them are faced with long-term health and developmental impacts
Girls usually enter the criminal justice system after abuse
After being kicked out of her house and expelled from school, a 16-year-old girl, Mea, learns to survive on her own.
Science is under attack. But scientists are speaking up
If a new federal rule is enacted, the administration could deny research grant applications related to life-saving issues like vaccine safety, climate science, and LGBTQ+ health.
The fields confessed
A federal judge agreed that Angola works men into the ground in unconstitutional heat. Then he said he could not make it stop. “The fields did not change,” writes Andrea Hagan. “The law that was supposed to govern them did.”
What would a Declaration of Independence rooted in belonging look like?
"What united us in 1776 was the idea that a country can be defined by a shared belief that freedom and equality are human rights. Without belonging, there can be no true democracy.”
The fields have a stadium now
The NAACP should help top Black student athletes forgo SEC money and honor the NAACP voting-rights boycott — without having to take a back seat.
All cities are mortal
For those of us concerned with New Orleans’s survival and that of vulnerable communities like it, we must finally acknowledge a startling reality: New Orleans can only be saved if it first accepts that it might not be.
