Editorial

When Thurgood Marshall was strategizing his legal attack on segregation in the public school system of Topeka, Kansas, he asked psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark to repeat an experiment they had first conducted twenty years earlier in the 1930s.

With back to school preparations starting amongst parents and students, it’s only fitting to talk about something that is the thorn in the side of every parent who has to drop off and pick up their child from school — the car line.

More Republicans than Democrats appear to be “vaccine hesitant” -- that is, reluctant for one reason or another -- to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They’ve gotten the treatment you might expect in some quarters of the press. “Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We’ll all pay the price,” read one headline in The Washington Post. In The New York Times, there was, “Far-Right Extremists Move From ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop the Vaccine.” The Daily Beast chimed in with “The GOP’s Paranoid Streak From John Birchers to Anti-Vaxxers.” You get the idea.

Preparing to move to college can be a looming task when doing so for the first time. When moving into the dorms as a freshman, my biggest uncertainty was what would be needed for my dorm.

Gov. John Bel Edwards, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin and Republican lawmakers have agreed to rework Louisiana’s method for selecting its next voting system, but the new law isn’t likely to end disputes over what technology to select and how to do the shopping.

Sometimes, the system works. Last week, a client of mine, an abused woman from El Salvador, was granted asylum. You might not think that’s important or impressive. It won’t change the world, and it won’t make the “Breaking News” segment on CNN.

Every night, just before bed, he’d thank his bride of 70 years for giving him another wonderful day on Earth.