Give our graduates a break Our graduates are being shortchanged. The workplace they are entering is the most challenging it has been in decades. By comparison, the workplace those who are responsible for education policy, fu...
Louisiana’s ‘Give the criminals plenty of notice’ law! There’s a great new edict that’s about to become law in my home state of Louisiana. It’s called the GTCPTG statute. Short for, “Give the Criminals plenty of time to get away.” Louisiana legisl...
Getting Past Denial I think of myself as being educated in recognizing the signs of dementia. After all, I have been around people diagnosed with dementia for most of my life. I have probably met, assessed or observe...
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The President’s Column ~ 60 Minutes Sugar Rebuttal On Sunday, April 1 the CBS news magazine ‘60 Minutes” aired a story about sugar entitled: “Is sugar toxic?”
Reported by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the 14-minute story called American’s consumption of proc...
Apr 17, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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Retirement Legislation Advances The legislative session began with hordes of teachers descending upon the State Capitol to oppose Governor Jindal’s aggressive education reform package. The dust had barely settled after those two...
Random Thoughts Random thoughts on the passing scene:
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?
Why should being ...
Daddy is always there Daddy is always there
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“Daddy’s Poem”
Her hair was up in a pony tail, her favorite dress tied with a bow.
Today was Daddy’s Day at school, and she couldn’t wait to go.
But her momm...
The Invincible Dogma A long-standing legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Federal Expres...
Geraldo's Point It is not often that I agree with Geraldo Rivera, but recently he said something very practical and potentially life-saving, when he urged black and Hispanic parents not to let their children go ar...
The President's Column ~ Record corn crop There are still many sharp turns and bumps in the road between now and fall harvest, but a crop report issued today by the Agriculture Department indicates that farmers in the United States are pre...
Apr 04, 2012 | 0 | 3 |
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Mike Danna/La. Farm Bureau FederationZachary Today.Com
How To Save Money On Groceries Tawra Kellam editor of LivingOnADime.com does something that most people think they can’t do today. She feeds her family of 6 for $400 a month. Most people say that’s an impossible feat but what’s ...
The Big Hoax There have been many frauds of historic proportions -- for example, the financial pyramid scheme for which Charles Ponzi was sent to prison in the 1920s, and for which Franklin D. Roosevelt was pra...
