One of the worst disasters to hit our Mother Earth recently struck Indonesia this past weekend when an earthquake and tsunami killed more than 800 confirmed dead that was expected to rise in numbers before the tragedy ended. […]
There’s some good news from across the planet. North Korea is no longer pushing nuclear weapons as its citizens were some time ago. They are now stressing improvement to their economy that will make them a better partner in a world and no longer looking for weapons to explode in other countries. […]
The U. S. economy has shown a rapid rate of growth recently and in August, wages reportedly have increased at their fastest rate of growth in the past nine years. The economy added 201,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained at 3.9 percent which is near an 18-year low, the government reported Friday in its monthly jobs report. […]
The United States has lost one of its greatest servicemen and also one of its most respected politicians this past week. John McCain died Saturday after battling brain cancer for more than a year. He was 81 years old. […]
Congress has approved four years after okaying the funding for a $760 million hurricane protection levee to protect the east bank of St. John the Baptist Parish and parts of neighboring St. Charles and St. James parishes from storm surges that could be caused by the so-called 100-year storm or a hurricane with a one percent chance of coming up any year. […]
There’s a fabulous building in the center of New Orleans that has not been used for several years and, hopefully, will come to a use in the not-too-distant future. […]
If you haven’t been to Grand Isle, La., lately, you have to go. The eight-mile long beach there today is twice as wide as it was last year after it had shrunk down to one of its smallest sizes in recent history. […]
St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes have received an okay for $760 million federal funding needed to build levees that will protect the east bank of both parishes when storms swell the waters in Lake Pontchartrain in the future. It is part of a larger $2.6 billion supplemental spending bill. […]
Our new governor is suddenly achieving some accomplishments. After several months in which a stalemate threatened, he finally got a compromise on the budget and taxes that gave us hope for the future. […]
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