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Holding lawmakers accountable: LABI score card, voting guide

The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) released its 2025 Scorecard, an annual voting guide that tracks where lawmakers stood on issues impacting Louisiana’s business community, ranging from education and civil justice reform to energy and tax issues.

The Newfoundland Hero

In the winter of 19071908, Prefect of Police Louis Lépine employed dog auxiliaries to patrol the lonely beats in and around Paris, France. Having the dogs patrol the lonely beats would free up human police officers to concentrate their efforts in areas with higher crime rates.

All Y’all

A Southern Writer’s View of Then and NowAccording to Merriam- Webster, a colloquialism is “a local or regional dialect expression.” Another definition? Language that’s “unacceptably informal.”I’ve been accused of both—unacceptable and informal—sometimes separately, but usually together.

Hamas to blame for Gaza’s woes but wants Israel to get blame

Hamas started a war, rejected a ceasefire and stole and profited from humanitarian aid, and we are supposed to believe that it’s all Israel’s fault.International attention is focused on food shortages in Gaza, with the blame and the pressure — as always — on Israel to do something about it.