On the Road Again

We often hear someone say they just want to leave the world a better place than they found it. That’s a great goal, but rarely is it the case.Unless you were Charles Kuralt.

Double Trouble

It was March 12, 1951. For comics aficionados, this date is important. It was the first time anyone got to experience the chaos of Dennis the Menace.

Louisianans worked 661 million more unpaid hours

As 2024 begins, employees are finding that their bargaining power isn’t what it used to be. About a year ago, job opportunities and rising wages were abundant, but now, those trends are reversing, with fewer openings and slower wage growth.

Why nothing is getting done in Washington

Poor ole’ Joe Biden. The current president really has his hands full. Some think the world is going to hell in a hand basket, and the Biden team is enmeshed in pouring billions to other countries.

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.