Editorial
Life of wastewater plant prolonged
Frequent travelers on Hahnville’s Highway 3160 (Home Place Road) may have noticed a green and yellow project sign near the entrance to the West Bank wastewater treatment plant. […]
Editorial
Editorial
Education leaders need to step up
As always this time of year, hopes and expectations are high for two-thirds of a million students returning to public schools. […]
Columns
Simple step to help politicians lose weight
Recently, there have been a lot of media accounts of politicians and government bureaucrats abusing the taxpayers with government-issued credit cards.
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Allen Lottinger
They’re still killing our fish
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is not as big as we feared it would be this year with the massive amounts of water that came down the Mississippi River in the spring. So said Nancy Rabalais, scientist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
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Editorial
What’s wrong with higher interest rates?
I remember that the interest rates on our first two houses were 5 1/4 percent and 6 percent. That was back in the 1960’s.
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Allen Lottinger
Big weekend ahead for Grand Isle
The oldest fishing rodeo in the country resumes this weekend after a brief one-year absence due to the BP oil spill. […]
Columns
Enough federal rocks are in our pockets
Our federal government is at it again.
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Editorial
Election is about the next one
Democrats were heartened some this week by news that state Sen. Rob Marionneaux of Livonia is mulling over getting into the governor’s race. […]
Columns
Job creation numbers filled with uncertainty
It wasn’t a great start to a Friday. The latest employment numbers came out on July 8, and they certainly didn’t paint a pretty picture. […]