Editorial
Dewey Davis is the Principal of Copper Mill Elementary in Zachary. (PHOTO/Submitted)
The Things My Parents Did Right
We hear a lot about what parents do wrong. Parenting is an incredible responsibility. To touch another human's life in such a way that it alters who they become, is mind boggling. Adults have blame...
May 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Columnist Jeff Crouere
The thrill is gone for Obama
May 10, 2012…In 2008, the Obama campaign represented “Hope and Change” and inspired millions of voters to pull the lever for the unknown man from Illinois. At his campaign rallies, it was commonpla...
May 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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A key element of the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act now making its way through Congress would allow motorized vehicles and equipment into wilderness areas, undermine 1964’s Wilderness Act which expressly bans motor vehicles on these last wild vestiges of untrammeled American land. Credit: Comstock

A key element of the Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act now making its way through Congress would allow motorized vehicles and equipment into wilderness areas, undermine 1964’s Wilderness Act which expressly bans motor vehicles on these last wild vestiges of untrammeled American land. (PHOTO/Comstock)
EARTHTALK: All-terrain vehicles banned in the wild?
Dear EarthTalk: I understand there is an effort underway to allow all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, motorbikes, motorboats and other motorized vehicles into wilderness areas, which would overturn ...
May 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some green groups, such as the Environmental Working Group, applaud parts of the 2012 Farm Bill that support healthy diets, organic farmers and links between local growers and consumers. But they are critical of provisions they say only continue subsidies for highly profitable farms while ignoring needed protections for wetlands, grasslands and soil health. (PHOTO/Stockbyte)
EARTHTALK - 2012 Farm Bill
How do green groups feel about the new 2012 Farm Bill draft recently released by the Senate? -- Roger Wheeler, Miami, FL Like so much of the legislation coming out of Washington, D.C.,...
May 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
The Moral Infrastructure
The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created. The unwillingness of authorit...
May 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Do You Know the Signs of Serious Engine Trouble?
Letter to the Editor May 8 Dear Editor, Engine trouble symptoms can mean major problems with your car. If you see, hear, feel or smell anything that is out of the ordinary, take your vehicle ...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jim Brown (PHOTO/Submitted)
So this terrorist walks into a bar!
I was in the New Orleans airport this week waiting as a family member made her way through airport security with two small babies.   Boy, were these guys with the Transportation Security Agency on ...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
A Cynical Process
Labor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being -- not by what they actually are or what they actually do. Many people, who do not look beyond t...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Baton Rouge break-away school district disappointed in Chamber
We are disappointed, to say the least, that the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce has chosen to side with the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board and oppose the citizen led initiative South Eas...
May 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Top vacation road trip spills & how to clean them
Do's and Don'ts of proper vacation clean-up
May 04, 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)
Waiting for the checks to bounce
It is extremely difficult for many folks to comprehend the financial quagmire that exists in local, state, national and international governments around the world. It is also obviously difficult fo...
May 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor - Zachary signs
Received via e-mail April 30 Dear Editor, perhaps it is none of my business since I live in West Monroe and not in Zachary. However, I would nonetheless like to ask why the sign pointing people to...
May 02, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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