When the Community Foundation of North Louisiana released its 2019 Community Counts data, the foundation was clear that it was leaving analysis of the numbers up to leaders of the
If you had trouble keeping up with the past week’s turn of events concerning Dubach School, you could hardly be blamed. The speed at which the topic of the school’s
Having grown up in a fairy tale world where every Cinderella met her prince and wicked witches burned in cauldrons of their own recipe, I remain amazed when acts of
Dear Rusty: My birth date is 1947. My wife is 1950. We both took our Social Security (SS) years ago at age 62 due to health concerns because we questioned
The United States is confronted with a growing menace that is threatening to destroy our great nation forged by the founding fathers of the United States. This danger is new
In the Jan. 22, 2020, edition of the Ruston Leader, Nancy Bergeron gave a review of the efforts to collect data from the Sparta Aquifer of which 16 parishes receive
Sometimes, I wonder how they pay their taxes in different countries. In Russia, two big burly guys probably knock on your door and say, “Give to us all the money
Numbers may not lie, but they can have some interesting stories to tell. Like the story that quickly appears from even a casual look at the recently released 2019 Ruston
I’ve always been sentimental about baseball, the one youthful passion that’s lasted all my life. At this time of year, I’m normally counting the days until pitchers and catchers report.
Some public figures loom larger than life, for reasons both good and bad. Former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a Los Angeles helicopter crash,
