Allen Lottinger
Jindal talks here, delivers own baby
When Cong. Bobby Jindal finished his very enlightening talk at the St. Charles Rotary Club meeting last week, he announced that his wife was expecting a baby.
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A way of life many love to hate
These are truly some trying times for Americans. For most of us, it is also a very patriotic time filled with pride. For the rest of you, well, I guess it is a troubled time torn between your antiwar beliefs and hopefully being supportive of the thousands of our servicemen and women maintaining peace in a troubled region.
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Politics not the answer
As the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, too much of the landscape in the hardest hit areas of Louisiana remains devastated. […]
Allen Lottinger
$3 not that expensive for a gallon of gas
Let’s look at it this way. You pay almost $3 for a gallon bottle of water – – H2O – – that stuff that is the most plentiful liquid in the universe. […]
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The beginning of a new school year
Can you believe it? Another summer has come and gone already.Three sure signs tell us it’s so. Football practice has started, parents have been stripping school supplies off the shelves and, starting next Monday morning, deputies will be set up in school zones all across St. Charles Parish attempting to slow motorists as an army of school busses take to the streets. […]
Allen Lottinger
Senate bill would be little help to Louisiana
We would get about $2 billion a year thereafter. Problem with the House bill is that it could, in the end, allow drillling off the east and west coasts, which some states do not want. […]
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Let’s give neighborhood crime ‘a night out’
For decades, we here in St. Charles Parish have been blessed with a quite and safe community.Often, our problems appeared dwarfed by those of our larger neighboring parishes. […]
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A man with a plan
Michael Leavitt knows the clock is ticking on his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before he leaves in less than three years, there are certain things he is keen on accomplishing. […]
Allen Lottinger
Veto of stem cell bill right choice
Pres. George W. Bush took the right action in vetoing the bill to provide federal financial support to stem cell research in which living embryos are killed. […]