During the past two years, the Bayou Brief has published hundreds of original reports from dozens of writers, stories about the people, the land, the scandals, the culture, and the history of Louisiana and the Deep South.
We’ve reported on the controversial I-49 connector in Shreveport, about a congressman from Richland Parish whose family has quietly received millions in farm subsidies, including some not to farm, about the unsolved murders of a group of women in and around Jennings- a murder mystery known as the Jeff Davis Eight, about the significant evidence that suggests Gov. Huey P. Long was not assassinated by Carl Weiss but was likely killed accidentally by his one bodyguards, about the Colfax Massacre in Central Louisiana, and the funeral of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge.
Before we launched the Bayou Brief, I personally vowed this would be a publication that attempted to cover stories of importance on all corners of the state and that this would not merely be “a political blog,” but instead a thriving and diverse platform that covered a wide range of stories: Saints games and book reviews, the environment and education, healthcare and history.
