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Among Medicare enrollees, in 2013, the year before running for Congress, Ralph Abraham ranked as the 11th most prolific family practice opioid prescriber in Louisiana.

The effort to ignore or mislead Louisiana about the significant volume of opioids dispensed at pharmacies owned by Dr. Ralph Abraham diminishes the severity of an American-made epidemic.

U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham’s Pharmacies Dispensed Nearly 1.5 Million Doses of Opioids in Two Rural Louisiana Towns With a Combined Population of 6,000 People

Clay Higgins may have been Louisiana's first "Trumpian" politician, but Landry was its first Tea Party radical.

In a crowded race for an open seat, unless Democratic voters consolidate around one candidate, it appears as if we may be headed toward a runoff between two Republicans.

Peter Athas on the death of former Governor Mike Foster and how Trump's illness has evoked the final years of Earl K. Long.

Clay Higgins rose to power by telling a story about personal redemption, but his former boss, the sheriff of St. Landry Parish, now claims he would have never given him a second chance in law enforcement if he'd known what really happened before Higgins resigned from the police force in Opelousas.

Despite the Governor’s extension of the statewide stay-at home proclamation to May 15, despite a House member having died from COVID-19, and despite the...

A YEAR-END BRIEF: PART TWOAcknowledgmentsThe Best of the Bayou Brief in 2019JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecemberThe Briefcase AwardsBest HeadlineMost FearlessBest Sports ReportingBest Education ReportingBest Political CommentaryBest Environmental ReportingBest...

In the first of a two-part series, we give credit where it is due and resurrect a slate of awards that LSU professor Bob Mann created for the Times-Picayune. This is the good, the bad, and the ugly of Louisiana politics in 2019.