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Michael Danna is director of public relations and host of the Farm Bureau’s long-running farm news program “This Week in Louisiana Agriculture.” (PHOTO/Submitted)
The President's Column - Bunches Bend levees dredging
It’s not often you see bulldozers and dump trucks in a farm field, but in the case of Bunches Bend in East Carroll Parish, it’s as necessary as a combine. Although the river is low this year, 2011 ...
Aug 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
May I Borrow That?
President Obama has a problem. After 40 months of unemployment above the 8 percent level, he needs a marketable plan to convince American voters that his re-election is their best bet for employmen...
Aug 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Sports Versus Politics
It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics. What has puzzled me is why this is s...
Aug 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
The Man Column
The Man in the Arena At the request of David Grotefend, I am copying a quote made by Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, in a speech given in France over a hundred years ag...
Aug 10, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Allan Von Werder (PHOTO/Submitted)
Barack Obama’s right - he didn’t earn his success
Barack Obama’s right - he didn’t earn his success Progressives were in a tizzy after Barack Obama let slip their foundational philosophy that the individual is meaningless, accomplishes nothing on ...
Aug 09, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Collateral Damage
During the recent legislative session, several important pieces of education-related legislation passed that created considerable controversy. Perhaps the most controversial was one that granted sc...
Aug 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Collateral Damage
During the recent legislative session, several important pieces of education-related legislation passed that created considerable controversy. Perhaps the most controversial was one that granted sc...
Aug 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stacy Gill, editor of the Zachary Plainsman, is currently enjoying a beach vacation. (Plainsman Staff photo)
The ugly truth behind PVBs and PTD
*The following is Part 2 of a series on Post-Vacation Blues. Read Part 1 by visiting Zacharytoday.com and searching Post-Vacation Blues.* Besides the number one way of dealing with the post-vacat...
Aug 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
And they want to see Romney’s tax returns???
If you have any doubt about the left wing, liberal news media, carrying water for the democrats, consider the following circulating on the Internet. “The Media goes bonkers over the Dems wanting 12...
Aug 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeff Crouere, of New Orleans. (PHOTO/Submitted)
CNN: The stupid network
It keeps getting worse at CNN. Two days after CNN President Jim Walton, a 30-year veteran of the network, announced his retirement, the network broadcast a Pink song “Stupid Girls” right before air...
Aug 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
BESE injects accountability into State Scholarship Program
The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) held a special meeting to consider a proposal from state Superintendent of Education John White to inject a much needed accountability c...
Jul 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
The Man Column
O’s medical insurance Donald Trump, love him or hate him, is a man of few words but when he speaks people listen. On the internet, he reportedly stated the following. It is better said than I co...
Jul 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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