Faimon Roberts: Richland Parish teachers get a taste of Meta money BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated 6 hrs ago Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the massive tax payment that Meta dropped into rural Richland Parish — more than $22 million, approximately doubling the normal sales tax revenue.
+2 Faimon Roberts: Even after being booked, Randy Smith still misses the mark BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Jun 5, 2026 Randy Smith doesn’t get it.
Faimon Roberts: St. George’s incorporation didn’t end disputes about the city BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Jun 2, 2026 One could be forgiven for thinking that the Louisiana Supreme Court’s 2024 decision validating the incorporation of St. George signaled an end to more than a decade of local hostilities over t…
Faimon Roberts: Hand over a national forest to locals? Send that order back BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist May 31, 2026 At first blush, a plan to give 140,000 acres of Kisatchie National Forest to Grant Parish’s government and school board is ridiculous. Farcical, even.
Faimon Roberts: Richland Parish coffers jolted with Meta money BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated May 25, 2026 To listen to some, Meta’s Death Star-scale data center in Richland Parish spells nothing but doom. They say it’s going to use too much power and water, it doesn’t pay enough taxes and it won’t…
Faimon Roberts: St. George school amendment fails, but not on its merits BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist May 17, 2026 The St. George schools effort is dead.
Faimon Roberts: In Ronald Greene wrongful death case, money is good but it’s not justice BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated May 15, 2026 No amount of money can equal justice. But $4.8 million is about as close as the family of Ronald Greene is likely to get.
Faimon Roberts: Facing a budget squeeze, Louisiana DAs go on offense BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist May 12, 2026 Hillar Moore is taking his case to a familiar place: state district court.
Faimon Roberts: A Roman stone found in a New Orleans backyard is rightfully back home BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist May 9, 2026 Sextus Congenius Verus finally has made it home. Or rather, his grave marker has.
Faimon Roberts: Louisiana needs a budget for water BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist May 5, 2026 Thank God we’re not in Texas.
+2 Faimon Roberts: In Baton Rouge tragedy, Sid Edwards led while Jeff Landry lectured BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Apr 27, 2026 Sid Edwards struck just the right tone.
Faimon Roberts: The Legislature pushes back against creeping secrecy in higher ed BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Apr 26, 2026 Sometimes, the Legislature gets it right.
Faimon Roberts: LIV Golf might leave Louisiana in the lurch BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Apr 20, 2026 Louisiana’s bet on LIV Golf is looking increasingly like a loser.
+3 Faimon Roberts: For the children of Apollo, Artemis success was extra special BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Apr 15, 2026 The splashdown of the Artemis II mission Friday evening, with the crew capsule gently floating down into the Pacific Ocean under its striped parachutes, capped for NASA — and for many space fa…
Faimon Roberts: Lake De Cade case shows how a coast becomes unlivable BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Apr 10, 2026 In Louisiana, we can look south to see the future.
Faimon Roberts: Hiding public university athlete pay is a loss for taxpayers BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Apr 7, 2026 This could have been the shortest column you’ll ever read.
Faimon Roberts: In Baton Rouge, happy days are here again. For now. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Mar 25, 2026 Finally, a win for Sid Edwards.
Faimon Roberts: Retiring Louisiana district attorney shares lessons from 30 years of prosecutions BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Mar 16, 2026 AMITE — Even long arms get tired. When that happens, it might be time to let go.
Faimon Roberts: Wanna bet on aliens? Prediction markets are the new, unregulated frontier for gamblers. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Mar 13, 2026 Will the U.S. government confirm that aliens exist this year? Want to bet on it?
+2 Faimon Roberts: ‘It’s broken’: Agent-turned-convict Chad Scott reflects on the system he once served BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Mar 11, 2026 MANCHESTER, Ky. — Sitting on a hard chair in the low cinderblock visiting room at a federal prison camp nestled in the foothills of Appalachia, Chad Scott has lost little of the frenetic energ…
+3 Faimon Roberts: Louisiana’s water crisis notches another city BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Mar 9, 2026 Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A Louisiana city’s water infrastructure failed, leaving residents, businesses and public services with low pressure and unflushable toilets.
Faimon Roberts: Carbon capture opponents may have noble aims, but their quest is quixotic BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Mar 1, 2026 Carbon sequestration wells don’t look much like windmills.
Faimon Roberts: Latest indictments should make Sharon Weston Broome nervous BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Mar 6, 2026 Is Sharon Weston Broome getting nervous? Maybe she should be.
Faimon Roberts: Louisiana attorney used AI to write a brief. It could cost him thousands. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Feb 22, 2026 This Covington attorney’s blunder is a cautionary tale, columnist Faimon Roberts says.
+2 Faimon Roberts: Photos, stories and reckoning with the past BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Feb 15, 2026 A streetcorner in Baton Rouge. A New Orleans restaurant. The courthouse in Clinton.Â
+2 Faimon Roberts: Louisiana has a migration crisis, but it’s not the one many think BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Feb 10, 2026 Louisiana has a migration crisis.
+3 Faimon Roberts: Arden Wells isn’t a Louisiana hero. But his Facebook post wasn’t a crime. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Feb 6, 2026 It is hard to view Arden Wells as some sort hero of the Constitution.
+4 Faimon Roberts: Artemis II could soon take Americans back to the moon. It’s about time. BY FAIMON A. ROBERTS III | Staff columnist Updated Feb 2, 2026 Next week, for the first time in more than a half century, the United States could send a crewed mission around the moon.