Lifestyles Columnists
Healthful neighborhoods support healthy lifestyles
“Are your neighbors healthy?” Karen Overstreet asks. Creating a healthful neighborhood may be the secret to your own healthy lifestyle, according to the program leader for food and consumer science...
Mar 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gray mold on tomato.
Gray mold attacking Louisiana greenhouse tomatoes
Gray mold, a fungal disease common to tomatoes grown in greenhouses, has been showing up in operations from East Feliciana to Terrebonne parishes in recent months. “This gray mold, which is caused...
Mar 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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AT&T invested more than $1.2 billion in La. from 2010-12 to enhance speed, reliability, performance for customers
Expanded 4G LTE coverage, new cell sites, boosted capacity drive improved customer experience
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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This landscape design offers nice partial shade for these shrubs. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Evaluate light in your landscape
When it comes to gardening, knowing the sunlight conditions in different areas of your landscape is critical to success. If you should plant a shrub you just bought in partial shade, do you know wh...
Mar 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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EDITORIAL: The Bayou State will benefit from a beefed-up Biofuels Sector
Louisiana has been a national leader in energy for generations. Our state’s vast natural resources – including crude oil and natural gas – help power a state economy that is outperforming the natio...
Mar 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Try Swiss chard in your vegetable garden
Swiss chard is a leafy vegetable that can be grown easily in Louisiana vegetable gardens during fall, winter and spring. It is reliable and very productive and should be planted more often. A cool-...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau
March Madness
Unless the unlikely happens, on March 1 the much cussed and discussed federal sequester will automatically trigger, cutting some $1.2 trillion over 10 years across the board in both defense and dis...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Flowers on a pink Double Knock Out rose. (PHOTO/ Allen Owings)
Proper early-season care gets roses off to a good start
Home gardeners need to increase their knowledge and awareness of management practices recommended for roses in our landscapes. Roses are one of our most popular ornamental plants. We have types of ...
Feb 25, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Going Beyond the Game in the Classroom
Essay contest announced, deadline April 30
Feb 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Random Thoughts
I can't get excited by the question of whether Senator Robert Menendez had sex with a prostitute in Central America. It is her word against his -- and when it comes to a prostitute's word against a...
Feb 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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La. landscapes show signs of early spring
Landscapes around the state are in various stages of their spring awakening, but it is still February. “With our unusually warm January and February, we’re seeing flower buds opening and foliage gr...
Feb 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stacy Gill has been the editor of the Zachary Plainsman-News since November 2007.
The heart wants what the heart wants
With Valentine's Day on Feb. 14 of this week, it seemed fitting to write about love and matters of the heart. Love is perhaps the most fickle of all human emotions. Who we love, why we love them an...
Feb 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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