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Manufacturers have a Growth Agenda for the Nation
By DAN JUNEAU Special from LABI BATON ROUGE — In an ongoing effort to show policy makers the importance of manufacturing to the nation, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently rel...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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J.H. Campbell Jr.
Easter and Passover — God’s Presence
By J.H. CAMPBELL JR. Societies around the world are embracing “secularism” since they are encouraging their peoples to be indifferent to, or outright reject, religion or religious considerations. W...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Savages
The Northern Arapaho tribe in Wyo-ming was granted permission by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to kill or capture and release two bald eagles a year for ceremonial purposes. Quite a backlash e...
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Drill
“More domestic drilling won’t bring back $2.50-per-gallon gas, as Newt Gingrich has suggested — oil prices are dictated by the vast world market, of which U.S. production is just a small fraction. ...
Mar 14, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Goodbye, Davy Jones
The surprise death of Davy Jones last week left baby-boomers and some beyond that generation, like me, a little depressed. The former Monkee was only 66. Now, when I was 20 years old, 66 seemed anc...
Mar 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Every More Frightening
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s ...
Mar 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Life Signs
We will be nearly finished, I think, when we stop understanding the old pull toward green things and living things, toward dirt and rain and heat and what they spawn. – John Graves, “Goodbye To A R...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: No Rights
The United States Congress has authorized what some claim will mean unmanned drone aircraft to fly over U.S. skies, possibly as many as 30,000 by the year 2020. These would be available to federal,...
Feb 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kudos & Kvetch: Tell us what you want ... what you really, really want
By JEAN L. KAESS I’ve been asked why I haven’t been writing columns lately. The answer is simple. I haven’t had anything to say. It is time to change that. Various recent situations have made me wa...
Feb 06, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mackrophone: When is a recruit not a recruit? Good question
By MACK SPENCER Private schools recruit. This should be no secret to anybody. Private schools don’t have the built-in advantage of public schools to expect the enrollment of any school-aged child i...
Feb 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Once More, With Feeling
And another dadgum thing, while I’m on my high horse. What’s going on with the various so-called developments on the horizon, in Garden City and across the bayou from Parc sur la Teche? Anyone? The...
Feb 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: What Else Is Eating At Me
It’s time to get some things off my chest, and it ain’t going to be pleasant for either of us, I’m afraid. After several kind and helpful replies to last week’s column, “How It Happened,” I decided...
Feb 01, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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