Mary L Landrieu

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday, after weeks of refusing to step down despite calls for his ouster from officials including the...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Congressional members said today that Galveston homes and businesses rebuilt in the year since Hurricane Ike show how quickly communities can rebound after being hit hard by storms. But U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says...

WASHINGTON — Two years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion unleashed the worst oil spill in American history, Congress has failed to take meaningful action to prevent a similar disaster, according to a new report from members of a presidential...

Well those high fallutin', English-accented louts at BP are learning that if you want to do business in the United States you have to do business with her politicians; and while much of the Gulf South, Louisiana included, is doing joyous cartwheels down...

Congress averted a threatened shutdown of the federal highway program but continues to face a bumpy ride in crafting a multi-year transportation bill that seeks to create jobs and ease traffic congestion. The Republican-controlled House on Thursday...

Hello Texas, Virginia and Montana ... and thank you for buying medical services for us Cajuns and Coonasses! Oh, and thanks for contributing $2.5 BILLION to Senator Landrieu's re-election campaign. What’s that you say, you don’t recall the...

It's not your imagination. Congress seems to be paying closer attention to travelers' welfare. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the International Travelers Bill of Rights, proposed bipartisan legislation that would require online travel agencies to...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ending weeks of political brinkmanship, Congress finessed a dispute over disaster aid Monday night and advanced legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown only days away. The agreement ensured there would be no interruption...

Archbishop Philip Hannan's work in New Orleans sometimes moved outside the church and into the political world. "I don't think we've had an archbishop since Archbishop Hannan who's been as vocal politically," says WGNO political analyst Jeff Crouere....

Remembrances of Archbishop Phillip Hannan flowed on Thursday morning as news of his death at the age of 98 spread through New Orleans. WGNO Facebook friends recalled memories of Hannan celebrating their confirmations and officiating at graduations....

Let me toss some adjectives your way and see if you can guess who I am: Greedy, money-grubbing, inconsiderate, sellout. Did you guess: a Wall Street CEO? Nice try. I am of course talking about Senator Mary Landrieu who has thrown an all too...

Just when I thought it was safe to look at my google alerts again, up pops another pearl of muddied wisdom from Senator Mary Landrieu. Seriously folks, if they give Emmy’s out for TV greatness and Grammy’s for music, what do they give for...