Opinions & Responses
There’s new hope for state coming out of Washington
If Hurricane Katrina did anything good for this area, it was to make people in other parts of the country realize how the coast of Louisiana is washing away. […]
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Local citizens need to be seen and heard more
What’s that you say? The people up in Washington D. C. don’t care what you think? […]
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Think positive about the season that lies ahead
As if you didn’t know already, today is the first day of hurricane season. It is the day many have been dreading for months. […]
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Southeast Louisiana needs unified approach
Now that the New Orleans area has gotten politics out of the way, it is time to get down to the business of unifying southeast Louisiana into a big and effective metropolitan area. […]
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Newspaper of Year award
It was a gala luncheon, to say the least, last Friday in Baton Rouge when Louisiana Press Association named St. Charles Herald-Guide as Newspaper of the Year in its category. […]
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Fish will become our Navy to defend us from mosquitos
When we reflect on how beautiful St. Charles Parish is, we think about its great outdoors that Mother Nature has blessed with an abundance of trees, wild plants and wildlife. […]
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Levee route through parish still undetermined
The good news is that the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning a hurricane protection levee along the west bank of the Mississippi River from Plaquemines Parish through St. Charles to Donaldsonville.The bad news is that it won’t even be started until 2009. […]
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Closing MR-GO would be cost-effective
We keep reading that it is not cost-effective to completely close the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet – – MR-GO as it is better known – – which has been blamed for much of the erosion of Southeast Louisiana’s wetlands. […]
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Water improvement financing an important matter
St. Charles Parish Council is considering a bold new plan to finance the improvements made necessary to its water system made by the increase of population and greater use by industry as the parish grows. […]