State-wide initiative to focus on veterans’ challenges

A statewide initiative to better understand the challenges faced by Louisiana’s military veterans and their families is set to launch in 2025.This initiative, spearheaded by the Louisiana Center for Health Innovation (LCHI), a center under the Informatics Research Institute at the University of...

Our country’s need for cheap stuff!

We need cheap stuff, and lots of it President Trump downplayed potentially empty store shelves at his recent cabinet meeting.He said of goods from China that might go missing, “Much of it we don’t need.”Then he elaborated the point: “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,...

Time to Retire!

What’s the saying? All good things must come to an end? We experience a number of “lasts.” In the secular world, I recall The Last Picture Show, the Last of the Mohicans, The Last Samurai.In the religious world, Christianity says there are four last things: death, judgment, heaven and hell.

Nation’s largest regional airline carrier will build maintenance base at Shreveport airport

SkyWest Airlines, the nation’s largest regional airline carrier, has selected Shreveport Regional Airport as its newest maintenance base and facility to help support its fleet of nearly 500 regional aircraft.The SkyWest facility is expected to create 150 direct new jobs with an average annual...

Can you live without China’s junk?

What does China export to the United States? Items include electronics, machinery, furniture, bedding, clothing, footwear, toys, cars, motorcycles, medical equipment, needles and catheters.

Services for assault and violence survivors

Project Celebration Inc. provides direct services to survivors of sexual assault, and domestic violence and operate the Children’s Advocacy Center. It operates in a seven -parish area (Bossier, Caddo, Desoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, and Webster).

Ask Rusty:

Please clear up our confusion about our Social Security PaymentsAsk Rusty –Please Clear Up Our Confusion about Our Social Security Payments?Dear Rusty: I am thoroughly confused.

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Why should Louisiana have levee districts at all?

Louisiana’s governor is proposing he take over all levee districts in the state with him doing the appointing. Board members of several large levee boards are crying foul, and charge that flood protection will suffer and emergency responses will slow down.

Ask Rusty:

When should my wife claim Social Security?by Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensDear Rusty: My wife was born in July 1959, and her recent SS benefit estimate is $3,337 at her full retirement age,...