Since 2009, the federal Department of Transportation has awarded $7 billion in discretionary funding to a combined 554 projects in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam
It’s time for a change at Ruston’s City Hall. The procedure by which the Board of Aldermen recommends the town’s annual budget to itself for approval needs to go. Every
“Voters opt for sweeping changes on Jury.” That was the headline on the March 10, 2004 edition of the Ruston Daily Leader, the day after voters dumped five incumbent Lincoln
It’s pretty easy to understand how Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker could see himself as the mop-up man who looks to heavens and asks, “why me?’ Even before he settled into
Among the potentially most bone-headed moves the Louisiana Legislature made during its 2019 session was draining the state’s already pitifully low voting machine replacement fund. Lawmakers shifted $2 million they
My grandmother was not a fan of air conditioning. It ran up the electric bill. Thus, summer at my grandparents’ house was just a few degrees above hell. Mamaw and
I never liked P.E. classes, especially if they involved competition. Neither my body nor my mind is wired that way. I prefer to lift weights in the gym with only
Sometimes the Louisiana Legislature does dumb things. Take the $700 million transportation bill lawmakers approved two days before the end of the recent legislative session. That’s the bill that left
