Budget shortfalls may stall
coastal preservation plans Most the communities and land along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast will be destroyed and under water in the next half century unless state and federal government spend some $50 billion during that time to ...
The Emperor Barack
Much like one of his predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama has all but declared war on the United States Supreme Court.
It will be remembered that in 1937 FDR was angry over the hig...
A Folk Festival that Refused to Die As far as festival making is concerned, the ’89 Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival beats most things I’ve ever seen, not everything I’ve ever seen, but most. I’ve been to six Sulphur Springs Champions...
Long’s address highlights changes over last four years An address by Sen. Gerald Long to the Natchitoches Rotary Club earlier this month focused on how drastically Louisiana has changed, for better and worse, over the past four years, and the direction...
Slower population growth
underlines La.’s problems Louisiana’s population is creeping back to normal after heavy out-migration during the economic recession of the 1980s and the loss of thousands of residents after Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, ...
Litter education course is step toward curbing trash A new law that went into effect in Louisiana this month adding a litter education segment to the state’s driver’s education course for teenagers could be a major step toward curtailing the costs an...
The End of the Beginning
Winston Churchill’s comments about the Battle of Egypt in 1942 popped into my mind when the Iowa Caucus vote was in: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perh...
In Defeat, Football Still Beats Politics
Even in a state where politics is a contact sport, when it goes up against football, a blood sport, there is no contest. Just as, sadly, there was no contest when LSU failed to show up for its sho...
Despite high approval rating, Louisiana lags under Jindal A new poll conducted for Gov. Bobby Jindal last month after he was returned to office by a landslide vote could be classified as political overkill in light of his lopsided victory and the lack of ...
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