CenLamar | Est. 2006

In the early morning hours of Nov. 19, 2015, Peter Gold, a 25-year-old Tulane medical school student, was driving down Magazine Street in New Orleans when he noticed a man dragging a semi-conscious woman down the sidewalk and toward a parked car. Gold pulled over and attempted to intervene, and the man, now identified as 21-year-old Euric Cane, shot him in the abdomen. Gold collapsed onto pavement, and Cane then raised the gun, pointed it at Gold’s head, and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed. Cane tried again, and again, it jammed. Cane then bolted, leaving the medical student writhing…

On Tuesday afternoon, LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communications wrapped up its first-ever post-election symposium, Louisiana Speaks: Conversations About the 2015 Election, which began on Monday with a robust 90-minute long panel discussion about the media’s coverage of the race. Because I was a panelist yesterday, I’m probably not the best person to give you an objective report. I’ll leave that to William Taylor Potter of The Daily Reveille, who rightfully pointed to moderator Robert Travis Scott’s closing remarks in his recap. “To sum up, we have a lot of sex but not much love,” Scott said. The symposium featured three panels and a whole…

Over the last eight years, I’ve published hundreds of articles about Bobby Jindal, which is the primary reason I was hoping his presidential campaign  would have lasted much longer than it did. As one of his fiercest and most prolific critics, I realized, selfishly, that a competitive Jindal campaign would have likely provided me with opportunities to speak to a much broader, national audience. Unfortunately for me, however, Bobby Jindal decided to suspend his flailing, quixotic, and desperate campaign for president, once and for all, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, only three full days before David Vitter, a man that…