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Tax reform puts candy and castor oil on the table
BATON ROUGE--I’ll make an early prediction about the 2013 regular session of the Legislature: it won’t take long for someone to scream “Fire in the hole!” Ideologies will quickly manifest themsel...
Jan 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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What's in a Cajun name?
Back in the days before Cajun Pride kicked in and we began to convince the rest of the world that it really was fashionably faddish to put hot sauce on corn flakes and call it Louisiana cooking, a...
Jan 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Looking back through Tangilena history through our newspaper pages
AMITE--The following was complied from the Tangi Talk and Amite Tangi-Digest from 1969 to 2003: January 8, 2003 - Mark Catalanotto, Sumner High's head football coach was named Coach of the Year....
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Does anyone care about debts and deficits?
“Fiscal cliff, part one” is over. President Obama wins the round. He wanted to raise the income tax rates on the top two percent of taxpayers and he got his way. The tax change will bring in an ad...
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“The Louisiana Scalawags,” available in January from LSU Press, Frank J. Wetta offers the first in-depth analysis of these men and their struggle over the future of Louisiana.
'Louisiana Scalawags' book from LSU analyzes white Republicans after the Civil War
BATON ROUGE – During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the pejorative term “scalawag” referred to white southerners loyal to the Republican Party. With the onset of the federal occupation of New O...
Jan 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Happy New Year?
The beginning of a new year is often a time to look forward and look back. The way the future looks, I prefer to look back -- and depend on my advanced age to spare me from having to deal with too...
Jan 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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How Cajun and Zydeco music began with a fiddle
You'd never guess it today, when half the world comes to south Louisiana to listen to the sounds of a Cajun fiddle, zydeco accordion, or saxophone wailing out a swamp pop lick, but there wasn't a ...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Looking back through Tangilena history
AMITE--The following was complied from the Tangi Talk and Amite Tangi-Digest from 1969 to 2003: January 1, 2003 - Derek Mitchell and Megan McClendon were named Oak Forest Academy's Mr. and Miss ...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Can you sleep when the wind blows?
Years ago, a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms ...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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The ignorant expect others to take them seriously
Random thoughts on the passing scene: When I was growing up, an older member of the family used to say, "What you don't know would make a big book." Now that I am an older member of the family, I...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Look at the facts about gun control laws
Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sheriffs cite moral wrongs with inmate phone rate cuts
By Michael A. Ranatza The Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association would like to set the record straight on where we stand in regards to the recent comments written by Foster Campbell, as well as the comme...
Dec 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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