Jim Beam

Republican President-elect Donald Trump wants to end daylight saving time and that has revived what has been a longtime and confusing subject. The Hill reported that Trump’s Friday, Dec. 13, announcement on his Truth Social platform has created a Republican brouhaha, which is defined as “a noisy and overexcited reaction to something.” Newsweek reported this […]

Louisiana citizens continue to get both good and bad news, but most of the recent news has been positive. Perhaps the best news is that about 94,000 Louisianans are going to get Social Security benefits they have been denied for 40 years. President Joe Biden has said he would sign the Social Security Fairness Act […]

If Louisiana citizens are lucky, members of their Legislature will spend much less time in Baton Rouge in 2025 than they did in 2024. In addition to their long regular session, they held three special sessions. As if that wasn’t enough, lawmakers created a record number of special committees that held meetings at the Capitol […]

The Louisiana Legislature is supposed to tackle the high cost of auto insurance when it meets in regular session from April 14 to June 12. Lawmakers made some property insurance changes to benefit companies at their 2024 regular session, but the changes really haven’t reduced premiums. Louisiana currently has the most expensive auto insurance in […]

When I first became a full-time newspaper reporter in January of 1961, some of the first advice I got was to always get people’s names right. I don’t remember who told me that, but they said some people only get their names in the paper twice in a lifetime — when they are born and […]

Tell me about a new vaccine, and I’ll get it. The only vaccine problem I have experienced in my 91 years was to see a blister and then a scar on my arm from a smallpox vaccination when I was just a kid. When I went to basic training as an ROTC officer in 1955 […]

Louisiana voters will decide the fate of four proposed amendments to the state constitution on March 29. Amendment 2 is the most detailed change to the constitution since voters approved a new constitution in 1974. Amendment 2 proposes to amend Article VII (the finance section) of the state constitution. It took 115 pages to list […]

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President Joe Biden in his Wednesday evening farewell address introduced what for many Americans may be a new word — oligarchy. The word is defined as a small group of people having control of a country, organization or institution. “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally […]

A former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has linked the devastating California wildfires to Hurricane Katrina that destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005. Craig Fugate, now a consultant in Gainesville, Florida, told the Los Angeles Times last week, “This is your Hurricane Katrina. It will forever change the community. It will […]