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Baking and eating your just desserts

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It all started with the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, and it’s one of the few lingering effects of the experience that hasn’t tempted me to seek intense electroshock therapy.

How about you wipe out your own student loan debt

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There are topics of conversation of which I attempt to steer clear. Then there are debates that I would rather take the loop all the way around rather than run into head on.

Speech warriors only defend speech they like

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Unlike so many people with Twitter and Facebook accounts these days, I am not a constitutional scholar.

Library leadership at critical juncture

When I started covering the Lincoln Parish Library and its Board of Control in 2019, I figured I’d get the occasional interesting tidbit to help fill out the paper every few months.

Musk stokes the battle over free speech

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America is a country of laws, and these laws originate from the people. The most fundamental roots of America’s are guided by the great and noble Constitution of the United States.

Biden administration’s decree regarding gender affirming care

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One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject. Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with one side, so why are you even trying to argue? It’s settled.

Greene probe: Uncovered info should matter

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Louisiana State Police Lt. Col. Kenny VanBuren finally said it: “There are questions that we will never be able to find the answers to because of exactly what most people feel: There was a cover-up, and there was a push to distort that which was.”

Students who participate in extracurriculars work very hard

Every May local high schools are winding down a hectic school year with extracurricular activities in the rear view mirror.

Time to unleash the innovative entrepreneur

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I started my first business in the fifth grade when I convinced a neighbor to allow me to cut her grass with her electric lawn mower.

Merely settling disputes won’t solve the problem

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Q: Our sons are six and four. When their same-age cousins, come over, they all go down into our basement to play. Invariably, within 30 minutes my youngest comes upstairs crying because his older brother is causing the cousins to gang up against him.