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By John Maginnis
& Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics Notebook
BATON ROUGE – Though 30 months remain in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s second term, political observers are looking closely for signs that his power has ...
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SWARTZ – A driver who couldn’t stop in time was killed when a freight train rammed his pickup Tuesday evening.
State Police said Jason Hensley, 22, of Lake Providence was killed in the accident at ...
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NEW ORLEANS – Another baffling and enraging maltreatment of wildlife has been added to the Louisiana file.
Federal investigators report that someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux...
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ABBEVILLE – Fishing for Memories: A Benefit Rodeo for the Alzheimer’s Association beginning June 20 added a 14th category in response to the extension of the Red Snapper Season by NOAA. This additi...
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WISNER – A Wisner woman was killed in a car crash on Sunday night in Franklin Parish.
The dead woman was identified as 25-year-old Memory Roberts, said Louisiana State Police.
Roberts was driving a...
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ABBEVILLE – The Vermilion Soil and Water Conservation District (VSWCD) in cooperation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Office of Soil and Water Conservation Louisiana Dept. of Agric...
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Cajun humorist
CROWLEY – Services will be Friday for Cajun humorist Dave Petitjean. He died June 18 at age 85.
He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He was one of the first humorists to perfo...
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Cattle industry promoter
SHREVEPORT – Services for cattle industry publicist and promoter Robert “Bob” Felknor will be Thursday. He died June 14 at age 70.
He was retired executive vice-president o...
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D-Day vet, police juror
HAYNESVILLE – Services for D-Day veteran and long-time police juror Jack Price will be Tuesday. He died June 15 at age 93.
He held the Purple Heart and was a Claiborne Paris...
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TV repair man
CARENCRO – Services for William “Bud” Chandler, Jr., who operated Acadiana’s first shop specializing in repairing color television sets and later owned a music store will be Saturday....
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Insurance exec, banker
BOSSIER CITY – Services for insurance executive and banker James Patterson will be Wednesday. He died June 9 at age 76.
He was a member of the Bossier High Hall of Fame and t...
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Retired aviator
HAUGHTON – Services for former deputy chief of staff for plans, Eighth Air Force, Col. Billy King, USAF retired, will be Monday. He died June 6 at age 85.
He was a veteran of the Ko...
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MAMOU - The Mamou Police Department reported they made 13 arrests recently.
The following persons were charged:
•Rod M. Fontenot, 49, 1001 Pine St., Apt. 127, Mamou, was charged June 2, with domes...
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The Ville Platte Police Department reported 25 arrests recently.
Arrested were the following:
•Rayon Thomas, 22, 1860 Kembo St., Ville Platte, was charged May 31, with no seat belt and flight from ...
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The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported 15 bookings recently in the parish jail.
Arrested were the following:
•Leroy Chain, 30, 623 Doyle St., Jennings, was charged June 3, with issuing wo...
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MAMOU - The Mamou Police Department reported they made 10 arrests recently.
The following persons were charged:
•Patricia Campbell, 1517 Max St., Ville Platte, was charged May 28, with simple batt...
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The Ville Platte Police Department reported five arrests recently.
Arrested were the following:
•Jon Rose, 26, 1317 W. Peach St., Ville Platte, was charged May 30, with aggravated assault (two coun...
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The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported 13 bookings recently in the parish jail.
Arrested were the following:
•Keenan OLanza Ardoin, 23, 1150 Rozas St., Chataignier, was charged May 28, wi...
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Marais Bouleur, the area northeast of Rayne, had a rough reputation early on. People who lived there didn’t back away from anything, least of all each other. That’s why they got to be called les ba...
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The Cold War was at its hottest 50 years ago, and Thomas A. Cochran, Civil Defense training officer for Lafayette, was worried.
One enemy raider loaded with incendiary bombs could burn all of Lafa...
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When we think of the history of Louisiana, French, Spanish, African, and Acadian influences immediately come to mind. We consider also the role of other European settlers — Germans, Irish, Italian,...
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Memorial Day weekend means it’s time to start watching the Gulf. The beginning of hurricane season is less than a week away, and the predictions are that this could be a mean one.
Philip Klotzbach ...
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Memorial Day weekend means it's time to start watching the Gulf. The beginning of hurricane season is less than a week ago, and the predictions are that this could be a mean one. Philip Klotzbach ...
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Fire was a huge hazard to south Louisiana communities in the days before modern firefighting equipment and good water supplies, when wooden homes and buildings were illuminated by oil lamps and can...
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KAPLAN – An LSU AgCenter economist told Vermilion Parish farmers that they have more reasons to be more optimistic this year than they had in 2012.
Kurt Guidry said rice exports have increased in ...
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The proposed reorganization of LSU’s many excellent schools and programs into One LSU will make a great university even greater.
These are tough times for our colleges and universities. And the LS...
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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
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You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
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When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves – they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being.
Such is the unfolding story of congressional reapportionm...
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When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves -- they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reapportion...
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One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a “need” for foreign workers to do “jobs that Americans won’t do,” especially in agriculture.
One of my most vivid me...
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Although the Budget Reform Coalition, the formal organization where the House’s so-called fiscal hawks nest, didn’t get everything it wanted out of this year’s tumultuous budget process, its conser...
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One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current immigration issues are discussed. A hundred years ago, the immigration controversies of that era were discussed in the context of innumerab...
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By: John Maginnis and Jeremy Alford
With the next governor’s election a mere 29 months away, prospective candidates are getting down to the first order of business, which is raising the money to f...
May 30, 2013 | 0 | 61 |
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We have truly entered the world of “Alice in Wonderland” when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwid...
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Where Ignorance is Bliss — If FDR had the same advisors that Barack Obama has, he wouldn’t have known that Pearl Harbor had been bombed until media reports filtered back to the mainland. The Obama ...
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