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Opinion

The Gulf Coast of Grand Isle and nearby marshes face threats of coastal erosion. [Above] Grand Isle is the state's only inhabited barrier island.

Coastal erosion is killing Louisiana

By Cody Sibley August 30, 2015

If we want to prevent another Hurricane Katrina, we need to talk about coastal erosion. If you’re from Louisiana, you probably know our levee system is killing our state’s ecosystem. If you...

A mural of Hurricane Katrina and Martin Luther King Jr. covers the walls of an abandoned building on Thomas Delpit Drive in Old South Baton Rouge.

Natural disasters can create opportunities for economically disadvantaged

By Justin DiCharia August 30, 2015

North of LSU sits dilapidated shotgun houses, broken down vehicles, a lack of grocery stores and an environment unfriendly to those wishing to rise above it. The scene is similar to the Lower 9th Ward...

In this aerial photo made during a flight provided by the National Wildlife Federation and Southern Wings, a shrimp boat travels behind a rock dam built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina, in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) in St. Bernard Parish, La., Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. The MRGO, originally built by the Corps, carried a storm surge from Katrina straight into the New Orleans area causing devastating flooding in the Parish. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Still Stuck in the Past

By Clarke Perkins August 30, 2015

I feel sorry for anyone with the name Katrina. There’s a chance you will lose friends before you even make them. Ten years later and we’re still putting up a strong fight against the aftermath...

Josh Duggar Needs to Feel Sincere Conviction

By Caitlyn Atkinson August 27, 2015

By his own admission, Josh Duggar is “the biggest hypocrite ever.” InTouch Weekly released a police report in May revealing Duggar had molested at least five underage girls when he was 14,...

Officer Boris McKnight from LSUPD performs motorcycle maneuvers at the The 13th Annual Gulf Coast Police Motorcycle Skills Championship Friday, Oct. 18, 2013 in Gonzales. The championship is put on to benefit the Dream Day Foundation and St. Jude's Hospital.

Police deserve respect and gratitude

By Caitlyn Atkinson August 27, 2015

A police officer in Birmingham, Alabama, is lucky to be alive after he was sucker punched and pistol-whipped unconscious on August 7. He hesitated to open fire on his African-American assailant because...

Socially responsible investing is the best of both worlds

By Jay Cranford August 27, 2015

Wall Street is evil. Recent movie villains aren’t zombies. Instead, they’re evil corporations destroying alien planets, drug-using sleaze balls screwing investors and Gordon Gekko being Gordon...

Yeah, about those “Stars and Bars”

By Keem O. Muhammad August 27, 2015

The role of what many call the “Confederate Flag” in contemporary America has been an ever-present discussion and particularly ardent since Dylan Roof’s pre-meditated terror last June....

In Fallujah, ISIS militants celebrated the group’s June declaration of an Islamic state. ISIS is the successor to the group Al Qaeda in Iraq.

OPINION: Obama failing to stop religious genocide

By Garrett Marcel August 26, 2015

President Barack Obama is not doing enough to save religious minorities under the influence of the Islamic State. There are millions of refugees from Syria and Iraq and while their situation is tragic,...

Women discuss the type of women who smoke weed and how it affects them.

OPINION: U.S. losing drug war

By Mariah Manuel- The Daily Reveille August 26, 2015

In November, one of the most politically important states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. If the measure is passed, Ohio will become the largest state in the country to completely legalize...

A Mother's Cry, a traveling presentation event made by Arthur "Silky Slim" Reed in order to prevent gun violence within the Black community, gave an exclusive interview before the event with Sybrian Futon, mother of Trayvon Martin, on Jan. 30, 2015, at the BREC Independence Park Theatre.

OPINION: Black Community Should Focus On Greater Issues

By Clarke Perkins- The Daily Reveille August 26, 2015

African-Americans have never been equal in America. We can march, protest, boycott, yell, riot and do anything else, but nothing will change if African-Americans don’t stop looking at each other...

Bill Cosby imatates his wife fixing her makeup on the way to the hospital to give birth during his two hour comedy performance at the Baton Rouge River Center on Sunday, Oct. 4.

OPINION: House Huxtable Should Stand

By Garrett Hines- The Daily Reveille August 26, 2015

Rape is wrong. Rape will always be wrong. And Nothing Bill Cosby says or does can change that. However, everything he built should not come crumbling down with him. The fact that some people believe it...

Josh Duggar checks himself into rehab for porn addiction.

OPINION: Josh Duggar battles inner-demons

By John Gavin Harp August 26, 2015

Josh Duggar has 99 problems, and keeping his trouser-snake in his pants is the worst of them all. On Wednesday, the oldest brother of the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting,” Josh Duggar checked...