The moment that might have signaled a cooling of tensions in Louisiana arrived in late July and immediately turned into something else. Special prosecutor Laurie White dropped the criminal charges against Attorney General Liz Murrill, acting at the request of Mayor Helena Moreno and five City Council members. The response from Murrill was not reciprocal […]
Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are borrowing a page from Washington’s playbook, training the machinery of state power on political opponents in New Orleans in a manner that outside observers are beginning to describe as deliberate, coordinated lawfare. The Baton Rouge Advocate examined the widening rift and found a conflict that looks […]
Five years after Hurricane Ida knocked out power to more than a million Louisiana households for weeks at a stretch, two Entergy utilities are more than halfway through billion-dollar grid-hardening programs. The surcharges funding that work already appear on monthly bills, and they are rising. What remains unclear is whether the investment will hold when […]
The majority of relapse prevention plans we use have been based on standard empirically supported cognitive-behavioral plans that focus on identifying triggers and developing coping skills. Sleep is rarely if ever even addressed. Most Substance Use Disorders (SUD) treatment programs (which largely dictate community correction and parole guidelines for those with SUD) do not screen […]
Long-term anxiety and exhaustion are not only mental conditions but also physical ones that affect your nervous system, hormones, and even your skin. The ways in which sensory contact can help change this biological process are actually much clearer and easier to achieve than many might think. The Skin As A Social and Emotional Organ […]
You can walk into an Ohio dispensary and buy cannabis without a card now – so why would anyone bother getting a medical marijuana card? It’s a fair question, and plenty of Ohioans get tripped up by it. Here’s the catch: recreational buyers pay a hefty excise tax that medical cardholders don’t, they’re subject to […]
New Orleans woke up this summer without a World Cup to call its own, the Superdome passed over when organizers carved the event into 16 host cities. Grumble if you must, but pull up a map before you do. The nearest stadium sits barely a five-hour drive down Interstate 10, in Houston, and a Ticket-Compare.com […]
Most women approach midlife with the same health and fitness strategies they’ve been using since their 20s, eat less, more cardio, push through fatigue. Then things stop working. Weight piles on despite nothing else changing. Recovery becomes an ordeal. Sleep becomes a distant memory. What was less effective at 32 becomes a health-sabotaging disaster by […]
Isolation and loneliness can increase the risk of death by 50%, and seniors who self-report as being lonely are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital. This lack of engagement can also be linked to the early onset of dementia. The difference between being surrounded and being seen An older adult can reside in […]
Most families don’t talk about this until something goes wrong, a stroke, a fall, a diagnosis that changes everything. By then, options that were straightforward become expensive, slow, or legally impossible. The goal here isn’t to take anything away from aging parents. It’s to make sure their choices still count when it matters most. Why […]
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