I’m Just Sayin’ by SHEILA SMITH The Great Flood of 2013 When I headed out of Jennings that Saturday afternoon, Bayou Nezpique had just touched the edge of either side of La. 97. It was still raining. By Sunday, water was pouring over highways. Since I live between bayous Nezpique and Des Cannes, there were [...]
The Way I See It by DON WEST I received a congratulatory letter from my stepdaughter recently because I finally established a “Facebook” account. It said something like “welcome to the 21st century.” Now that I have one, I am not sure what to do with it. I seem to have lots of friends and [...]
The Way I See It by DON WEST Only in America could the rich people who pay 86 percent of the taxes in this country be blamed for not paying their “fair share” by the people who pay no taxes at all. The new bill that went through Congress, rammed through by the White House, [...]
I’m Just Sayin’ by SHEILA SMITH Driving to work, I was not surprised to hear “La Chanson de Mardi Gras” (one of the many recorded versions) on the radio. We have about five weeks left until Fat Tuesday but just as radio stations started playing Christmas music Nov. 1, I guess the deejays needed a [...]
Town Cryer by ALLISON CRYER Any elected official that makes decisions about our state’s education system should have firsthand knowledge of the students and educators their decisions are affecting. Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy shows that he knows it is important for our state elected officials to get first-hand knowledge of what goes on in [...]
The Way I See It by DON WEST Happy New Year. Bobbye and I wish the best for you and your families for this year and all the years to come. Having said that let me give you a few suggestions for this year of 2013. If you have a job, try and hold on [...]
The Way I See It by DON WEST I hope that your Christmas celebrations were filled with joy, love, hope, and were a source of fond memories that will recur through life. The gathering of families and friends should always be a pleasant and memorable occasion and hopefully a time when we gather to share [...]
Town Cryer by ALLISON CRYER As a child, can you imagine waking up on Christmas morning, only to find that Santa skipped your house because your family couldn’t afford to buy towers of presents to stack up around the tree this year? Many of us cannot imagine this because every year, since birth, we have [...]
The Way I See It by DON WEST Many families are in the midst of celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus. It’s the time of the year when there is so much for which to be thankful, and just this morning a young lady who has been married for 14 years told me they [...]
The Way I See It by DON WEST The word is out that the government (taxpayers) will make approximately $22 billion profit from the sale of stock from AIG, the huge insurance company that was part of the TARP bailout. Beware of the creative accounting, as nearly of one-third of that stock comes from the [...]
