To ensure that no one part of our governance process became more powerful than the others, our nation’s Founding Fathers put in place a series of checks and balances between the three branches of g
This morning marked a full week since the tornado tore areas of Ruston apart. There’s really nothing else I could possibly write this column about. out for me as I
I’ve been renting a little green cottage-style house on North Homer Street behind Greenwood Cemetery. There was a lovely, elevated back deck with my collection of plants and a chartreuse
Dear Rusty: I turned 67 in September 2018. My benefit estimate is $1,478 a month if I claim benefits now. I work and will continue working as long as I
Sometimes closure begins in the jury box. Consider the case of 59-year-old Vincent D. Roberson. He’s the man now convicted of killing a Lincoln Parish Sheriff ’s K-9 officer in
There is child raising and there is “parenting.” America replaced the former with the latter in the 1970s and it’s been downhill ever since. My mother — a single parent
It happened in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. And it happened this weekend in Ruston. Sometimes when facing tragedy headon, a little escape, no matter how slight,
Readers, it’s just you and me as I’m writing this at 10:30 Thursday night. At our house we have no internet connection and no TV reception. So if I want
