caption death_place death_date children birth_place religion imagesize nationality party footnotes birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
sketch the louisiana political museum and hall of fame in winnfield of laborde by the late pap dean from alexandria in rapides parish , louisiana 6 march 1993 joyce laborde cessac bordelonville in avoyelles parish , louisiana usa roman catholic 175px american democrat -lrb- '' column covered louisiana politicians in depth , but laborde 1 was a crusader for the environment , too . -rrb- his `` talk of the town 12 december 1912 blanche bordelon laborde -lrb- 1913 -- 2004 -rrb- adras_p . _ laborde_of_la . jpg adras laborde
 adras paul laborde , sr. managing town talk '' newspaper editor and executive editor of '' alexandria daily
adras laborde

adras paul laborde , i -lrb- december 12 , 1912 -- march 6 , 1993 -rrb- , was a reporter , managing editor , and columnist for the `` alexandria daily town talk '' , the largest newspaper in central louisiana .
his career stretched from the mid-1940s into the early 1990s .
an authority on 20th-century louisiana government and politics , he wrote some ten thousand columns under the title , `` the talk of the town , '' a play on the name of the newspaper .
laborde wrote about the strengths and the foibles of louisiana 's vast array of determined politicians .
