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Opinion

Gary Johnson

Opinion: Voting third party ineffective, useless in two-party system

By Lynne Bunch November 6, 2016

Voting in the 2016 presidential election feels like a reverse “Sophie’s Choice.” If the major party candidates were your children, chances are you would prefer to give them both away....

Opinion: Television needs diversity in network shows

By Myia Hambrick November 6, 2016

A Nov. 2 USA Today article “graded” the most common television stations’ onscreen diversity progress. The criteria for these grades are unclear; the only indicator of their research is...

Trump signs the Republican loyalty pledge, promising to support whomever the Republican Party would nominate for the presidency in 2016 and to not run as a third-party candidate, were he not to win the nomination himself.

Opinion: Assassination threats childish, unnecessary

By Jordan Marcell November 3, 2016

Recently, a Donald Trump supporter by the name of Dan Bowman was interviewed by CNN correspondent Miguel Marquez at an Ohio rally. Things got interesting when Bowman stated, “I feel like Hillary...

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump turn to the media on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, during a rally hosted in the Baton Rouge River Center.

Opinion: Trump supporters just want a Republican in office

By Clarke Perkins November 3, 2016

You do know it’s not illegal to vote against your registered party, right? After months of Donald Trump’s verbal diarrhea, you’d assume that with less than a week to go until the general...

Sandwich

Opinion: Celebrate National Sandwich Day with the five best combinations of meat, bread and cheese

By Jay Cranford November 2, 2016

On Nov. 13, 1718, Englishman John Montagu was born. As the grandson of an earl, he would go on to take over earlship, become postmaster general, lord of admiralty and secretary of state. Little did he...

David Duke

Opinion: David Duke’s Senate campaign is one reason Louisiana can’t progress

By Brianna Rhymes November 2, 2016

As if this year’s election season couldn’t get any crazier, former KKK grand wizard David Duke qualified to participate in last night’s second U.S. Senate debate. In 2016, a time when...

Finance and Weather

Opinion: Planning is key in both finance and weather forecasts

By Jay Cranford November 1, 2016

Did you know Baton Rouge is consistently one of the wettest cities in America? I’m sure you did because it rains all the time here. After about the third time I was on campus during a thunderstorm...

Opinion: Tipping necessary to account for service industry wages

Opinion: Tipping necessary to account for service industry wages

By Anjana Nair November 1, 2016

Working in a restaurant has taught me a number of things: how to change toilet paper in bathrooms, grind burgers from scratch and keep smiling when the difficult table — who was there for three hours...

The East Baton Rouge Parish voting center is in the University School on the LSU campus. 

Opinion: Right to vote important, elections matter to everyday lives

By Kevin Yau October 31, 2016

Just like any other election season, 2016 is a year full of political news, scandals and hot topics. From Donald Trump’s controversial rhetoric to an alleged fornication scandal from a Louisiana...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking with supporters at a "Get Out the Caucus" rally at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Satire: Clinton switches gears as landslide against Trump becomes inevitable

By John Gavin Harp October 31, 2016

With early voting underway across several states, the demographics of Americans who have voted give Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton momentum as she jets towards Election Day. Of the 22 million voters...

Opinion: Vine should serve as cautionary tale for investing in mobile apps

By Jay Cranford October 31, 2016

In your economics classes, you may have heard of a small event called the dot-com bubble. Between 1995 and 2001, investors — and the whole world really — became fascinated with revenue opportunities...

Protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota call for a stop of the pipeline construction which will pass upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. 
 

Opinion: Climate change imminent, ignored by everyone in 2016

By Cody Sibley October 30, 2016

Last month, NASA reported that September of 2016 was the hottest September over a 136-year period of record-keeping. This means, as 97 percent of scientists have been saying, our climate is continuing...