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Make room for many seats at the chess table

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I tend to fixate on things that catch my interest.

$15 wage will hurt vulnerable workers

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President Joe Biden is going full speed ahead with his plan to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Representative-less district waits for March

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Fact is fact, tragedy notwithstanding: Lincoln Parish and the other 23 parishes in the 5th Congressional District have no representation in Washington, D.C.

Simpler taxes long promised, never delivered

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I love winter. I love snow. I love making a roaring fire in my fireplace on a chilly day. But I hate one thing about this time of year: taxes.

Winter weather: Careful what you wish for

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Double the pleasure or double the trouble?

Lincoln Parish might just find out this week.

Please leave ‘Old Hickory’ alone

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There is a major push by the bureaucrats in Washington to put the first woman on the face of paper currency. There are a number of choices, and you will get no argument from me that there certainly is a place on one of our bills for a woman. But one of the options is to take Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill and use instead Harriet Tubman.

Virus-induced disruptions lead to learning lag

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When the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana led to schools closing their doors for the rest of the academic year last spring, one of the questions on many minds was, how much will this dis

Thinking about the audacity of shoplifting

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Dishonest people have no idea how many worries their honest counterparts have.

Looking at delayed claiming

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Dear Rusty: I am having problems getting answers from the national Social Security office or the local agent who I first spoke with to apply for my benefits. I am 70 in January 2021 and applied for benefits at the end of August 2020. I asked to have benefits start in October 2020 with my first payment received in November. I was told that the benefit for applying at age 69 and nine months would not be received until January of 2021.

Hey Govs. Cuomo, Newsome ... Come on down!

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In the late ’60s and early ’70s the chief of U.S. Naval Operation was a man named Elmo Zumwalt. He was from California and attended the highly traditional United States Naval Academy.