+2 Quin Hillyer: FEMA nominee shows that standing for principle need not be a disaster BY QUIN HILLYER Jul 26, 2026 When a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday advanced the nomination of a new administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it emitted a ray of hope for the idea that principled stan…
+2 Quin Hillyer: In trying to send message to grand jurors, Murrill’s team crossed a line BY QUIN HILLYER Jul 24, 2026 It is a very good thing that the bogus criminal indictment of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been dropped, but that doesn’t excuse one of the hardball tactics her defense lawyers e…
Quin Hillyer: Mayor Moreno gives herself high marks for first six months — and rightly so BY QUIN HILLYER Jul 23, 2026 When New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno earlier this month released a report on her first half-year in office, the fresh air was almost palpable.
+2 Quin Hillyer: Cutting aid to Israel would harm, not help, world peace BY QUIN HILLYER Jul 19, 2026 U.S. Rep. Troy Carter of New Orleans unfortunately has joined the wing of the Democratic Party that treats the Israeli government as the scapegoat for troubles in the Middle East.
+2 Quin Hillyer: For very good reasons, New Orleans now is officially irreplaceable BY QUIN HILLYER Updated Jul 16, 2026 The World Monuments Fund identified 10 “irreplaceable” sites in the United States, but only one of them was a whole city: New Orleans. The WMF is right, columnist Quin Hillyer says: The Big Ea…
+2 Quin Hillyer: Louisiana courts shouldn’t play double jeopardy with a freed man’s life BY QUIN HILLYER Jul 11, 2026 When a man serves 28 years on death row for a crime he almost certainly didn’t commit, and then two courts find him “factually innocent” under a law passed five years ago by a conservative, to…
+2 Quin Hillyer: After U.S. birthday, War of 1812 gets its due with Chalmette memorial’s enhancement BY QUIN HILLYER Updated Jul 8, 2026 If the Declaration of Independence announced the birth of the United States of America, the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 marked our nation’s end of adolescence and assumption of maturity in w…
+2 Quin Hillyer: James Monroe was just getting started when he saved the entire Revolutionary War BY QUIN HILLYER Jul 2, 2026 For July 4th, here’s a story from later in 1776, but it has a major Indpendence Day aspect as well. For our Semiquincentennial, consider how 18-year-old James Monroe essentially saved the enti…
+2 Quin Hillyer: Americans desperately need to capture the ‘Spirit of ‘76’ BY QUIN HILLYER Jun 28, 2026 Thomas Jefferson acknowledged that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence were commonly understood in the American colonies — and they were worthy ideals indeed. Since then, the United …
+2 Quin Hillyer: Cassidy has Rx for medical cost squeeze BY QUIN HILLYER Jun 25, 2026 Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy has six months left as chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension. He is making the most of it, pushing what he calls his MVP Agenda: …
+2 Quin Hillyer: Shooting cats, back when 60 Minutes was for it BY QUIN HILLYER Jun 22, 2026 Back in 1993, 60 Minutes (and star Mike Wallace) bizarrely supported experiments that involved shooting cats in the head. U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston halted the experiments, and Wallace blasted h…
+2 Quin Hillyer: Supreme Court rightly shoots down gun-marijuana law, wrongful arrest BY QUIN HILLYER Updated Jun 18, 2026 In U.S. v. Hemani, decided Thursday, the Supreme Court rightly ruled that a law criminalizing mere gun ownership for anyone who smokes marijuana, even if the gun and pot are completely unrelat…
+2 Quin Hillyer: Legislature should probe levee board’s sea of troubles BY QUIN HILLYER Updated Jun 18, 2026 This week’s storm in the Gulf of Mexico should focus the state Legislature’s attention on the operations of Louisiana’s most prominent levee board.
+2 Quin Hillyer: Wall around Louisiana nursing homes begins to crack Quin Hillyer Jun 11, 2026 Credit state Rep. Stephanie Berault for having the temerity this year to take on the Louisiana Nursing Home Association, a fearsome lobbying power in Baton Rouge. She didn’t win the day, but s…
Quin Hillyer: Louisiana AG Liz Murrill brought home common-sense wins this legislative session BY QUIN HILLYER | Staff columnist Updated Jun 7, 2026 When state Attorney General Liz Murrill leaves aside her hardball political power plays, she can notch common-sense wins that benefit everybody.
+2 Quin Hillyer: Sensible Louisiana district lines would benefit neither race or party BY QUIN HILLYER Jun 4, 2026 Amidst the racially charged arguments surrounding Louisiana’s congressional districts, the reality is that the population distribution within Louisiana isn’t naturally conducive to either poli…
+2 Quin Hillyer: Is remedial Louisiana education program actually a super-Star? BY QUIN HILLYER May 30, 2026 Louisiana may have a great thing going with an education program called Star Academy, and I apologize for suggesting otherwise.
Quin Hillyer: City still shouldn’t count chickens from Wisner Trust BY QUIN HILLYER May 24, 2026 Imagine that for generations, your family has enjoyed a camp-house on land about which multiple documents say your family “forever” holds a 40% share, but the 60% owner claims you now own abso…
+2 Quin Hillyer: A ballot isn’t a telegram. It’s a job contract, not a ‘message.’ BY QUIN HILLYER May 21, 2026 All too often in recent years, election results have instilled in this observer a deep sorrow.
+2 Quin Hillyer: All sides are wrong on redistricting. Congress can fix this awful mess. BY QUIN HILLYER May 17, 2026 The Supreme Court’s decision in the redistricting case of Louisiana v. Callais did little to make the process any clearer. State legislators across the country are making things worse. But Con…
+2 Quin Hillyer: This Louisiana man is on a mission to support Ukraine during war with Russia BY QUIN HILLYER May 14, 2026 Ukraine now may be turning the tide against Russia, but American interest in its noble cause seems to have waned. Now, through the charity called Razom, meaning ‘together,” former former New O…
+2 Quin Hillyer: A pugilistic stance against Louisiana’s inventory tax BY QUIN HILLYER May 10, 2026 Louisiana’s business inventory tax puts the state at a major competitive disadvantage while harming small businesses. This logic, plus a personal vignette, show why Amendment 4 on the May 16 b…
+4 Our columnists react to Supreme Court’s Louisiana redistricting decision, discuss implications May 8, 2026 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued what will surely be a landmark ruling in the case of Louisiana v. Callais, in which it declared the state’s current congressional district map unconsti…
+2 Quin Hillyer: Court and Gov. Jeff Landry made a messy election even messier BY QUIN HILLYER Updated May 6, 2026 The Supreme Court’s decision in the Louisiana v. Callais voting rights/redistricting case created a mess for the state because absentee voting already had begun for the May 16 election. Gov. J…
+2 Quin Hillyer: From Star to GATOR, here’s how education funds should flow in Louisiana BY QUIN HILLYER Updated May 1, 2026 An April 22 Wall Street Journal investigative report provides good reason for Louisiana’s legislature to move some education money away from one controversial recipient, in favor of the LA GAT…
+2 Quin Hillyer: For wetlands, stop the lawsuits. Adopt a coastal fee instead. BY QUIN HILLYER Updated Apr 30, 2026 Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana lost big when the Supreme Court threw out a $745 million judgment in its favor against Chevron for damage to Louisiana’s wetlands. Louisiana lost, too. Let’s stop…
+2 Quin Hillyer: In last stretch, Senate candidates should go positive, and local BY QUIN HILLYER Apr 26, 2026 Louisiana’s three U.S. Senate candidates — incumbent Bill Cassidy and challengers Julia Letlow and John Fleming — should start emphasizing how their own conservative records show they can be c…
+2 Quin Hillyer: President Garfield is suddenly one cool cat BY QUIN HILLYER Apr 19, 2026 New Orleans native C.W. Goodyear’s 2023 biography of little-remembered president James Garfield helped revive interest in the assassinated leader. Now, “Death by Lightning,” a mini-series on G…