Editorial

The Democrats’ filibuster hypocrisy

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On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting the filibuster. The letter, to Senate leaders Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer, began: “We are writing to urge you to support our efforts to preserve existing rules, practices and traditions as they pertain to the right of members to engage in extended debate on legislation before the United States Senate.”

How not to respond to a national tragedy

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There were any number of ways that Pennsylvania state Sen. Cris Dush, a Republican from a rural district in the state’s northwestern corner, could have responded to this week’s murderous rampage in Georgia that left eight people dead, six of them AsianAmerican women.

What should determine auto insurance rates?

Alexandria Senator Jay Luneau has filed legislation barring car insurance companies from charging women, widows or widowers, and those with low credit scores higher premiums.

What’s news? Depends on who you ask

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I need someone to tell me what’s happening. Not a tinted version of events but what’s really happening. I make the request because mainstream (if there is such a thing) news outlets seem to fundamentally disagree about what’s important.

It’s March madness, baybee!

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To give you some idea, my personal Road to the Final Four, as the TV announcers call it, began in junior high. My buddy Don and I were apprentice basketball junkies, shooting buckets and getting into pickup games every afternoon. New Jersey kids, we became obsessed with the great Jerry West — “Zeke from Cabin Creek,” they called him — and his West Virginia Mountaineers.

OMV warns residents of scams

The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) is warning citizens of third-party websites obtaining residents’ personal data and credit card information in addition to overcharging citizens for online vehicle registration services.

Infraction targets small municipalities

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One of my beats is covering state audits for the local entities of the parish.

Federal aid changes La. budget conversation

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Only months after concerns the coronavirus pandemic would force hefty budget cuts, Louisiana instead is awash in cash, billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 aid passed by Democrats in Congress.

The pro-life case for the COVID vaccines

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I’m pretty open about my pro-life views. I want abortion criminalized, banned and recognized as an act of inhumanity. I agree with Mother Theresa that “abortion has become the greatest destroyer of peace, because it destroys two lives, the life of the child and the conscience of the mother.”

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,