Opinion

Carla Sigler, a former high-ranking prosecutor under DeRosier and a former board member of DACAF, also agrees with Odom and Newman. “I have personally seen a red receipt book used to log in gift cards and I believe all gift cards were supposed to be logged into it,” she says.

No, I’m not talking about the meteor which streaked through the Russian sky, exploding and injuring 1,000 people. I’m talking about Jerry Lee Lewis exploding upon the scene at Linville School. Yes, that Jerry Lee Lewis.

America is strong and America is ingenious. America has immense muscle power and massive brain power. America was built on men and women that thrived, not survived, on a spirit that built industries and society and a country that grew from a backwater speck on the earth to become the leader of democracy. America morphed over time and we are going to see another metamorphosis that is being brought to us via a small critter that can only be seen under an electron microscope.

Today and every day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appreciates America’s rich agricultural history and celebrates the work of American farmers and ranchers. In honor of National Agriculture Day and Week, the agency is highlighting the progress that farmers, ranchers and EPA have made to provide Americans with a safe, abundant, and affordable food supply.

A road east toward Bastrop, Lake Providence and Vicksburg was present at least by the 1840s. So not only did steamboats unload settlers at the Alabama Landing (they likely could go no farther upstream for much of the year), but overland wagons from the east crossed at this site.

It’s taken a long time, a terribly long time; but it has finally happened. It has taken a pandemic of Biblical proportions coupled with an economic downturn that emotionally rivals the stock market crash of 1929. But it has happened.

The 2020 legislative session began March 5, and in many ways it was a new day at the Capitol as term limits ushered in a host of new members, and leaders in both chambers signaled that they will be seeking a more independent role in the governing process.

This is part 8 in a multi-part series about questionable behavior in Calcasieu Parish, reprinted from The Washington Post. The L.A.C.E. program is statewide and has been criticized and found to have many issues all across the state.

Many years ago a movie was produced that was based on H.G. Wells 1901 book, First Men in the Moon. There have been numerous versions of the book to hit the big screen. One of these depicted space travelers going to the moon, fighting aliens and all but one earth traveler returning to earth. Later, another mission went to the moon and discovered an underground civilization dead and the buildings in a state of decay and disrepair. As the movie closed the narrator stated that the one earthling left behind did have a bad cold. This eluded that the moon people had no resistance to the cold virus and could have destroyed the moon civilization.

This is part 6 in a multi-part series about questionable behavior in Calcasieu Parish, reprintedfrom The Washington Post. The L.A.C.E. program is statewide and has been criticized and found to have many issues all across the state.