Gov.-Elect Landry appoints secretary of La. Workforce Commission

Gov.-Elect Jeff Landry appointed Susana “Susie” Schowen as secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

A Small Town

A Southern Writer’s View of Then and NowYou learn things when you grow up in a small town. Things you don’t learn if you grow up anywhere else. Things that are special.I was born in a small town. But I didn’t stay. I left for the same reasons other folks leave their hometown.

Speaker of House leads delegation to the border to examine conditions

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson led a delegation of 60+ House Republicans to Eagle Pass, TX Jan. 3to highlight the ongoing failures of the Biden Administration’s border policies.

THE COUNTRY WRITER

It didn’t snow much in Ashdown, Arkansas in the 1960s. It doesn’t snow there much now. But when it did, and when it does, kids there know exactly what to do.Beg their moms to make snow ice cream.It was my mother who showed my sister and me that you could make ice cream out of snow.

Christmas Movies

I don’t know about you, but I’m a real movie buff. I have always really liked going to the movies.

Campbell to Governor and Governor-elect: Don’t blow this opportunity

Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell is asking Gov. John Bel Edwards and Gov.-elect Jeff Landry to support placing a massive, taxpayer- funded, clean-energy project in southwest Louisiana on State land, producing a windfall for Louisiana.

Keep Quiet, Children!

Each year on Christmas Eve, the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Cologne, Germany hosted a Living Crèche, what you and I know as a nativity scene or manger scene.

Universal Transfer Pathways approved

The Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) Dec. 13 approved new Universal Transfer Pathways at all public institutions, which are expected to launch for students statewide in Fall 2024.

Book Banning in Louisiana!

Is there a widespread effort here in Louisiana to band certain books? As many of you know, I published books, and am an avid reader. In all my years living here in the Bayou state, I can’t remember any effort to control what books are available in our local libraries. But this has now changed.

THE COUNTRY WRITER By John Moore

A Southerner’s View of Then and NowAs a young kid, I thought that every family did exactly the same things ours did. That included what and how we did Christmas.Turned out, there were two ways to approach collecting your loot. That is to say, seeing what Santa brought.