James Gill: Sheriff Gusman running for re-election remains clueless on workings of parish jail

Legislative Auditor: State may be losing out on millions in oil and gas severance taxes ~LaPolitics

Tulane center: From Mardi Gras to coastal research ~Amy Wold, Advocate

Zombie planet: a Vodou vision of the environmental apocalypse ahead ~Sally Ann Glassman, The Lens