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Nature’s wrath never ceases lately

Though I try not to dwell on it, memories of those brief minutes when the April 25, 2019 Ruston tornado passed through my neighborhood sometimes cross the threshold of my mind uninvited, without doing me the courtesy of even knocking on the door first.

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Praise be to the family potato salad

I face a huge responsibility this Labor Day weekend: I’ve been tasked with making my mother’s sacred potato salad recipe.

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Not all evacuations are equal, unfortunately

An evacuation is a sobering experience. A tidal wave of emotions rolls over both the participants and observers.

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When do you force the pizza boy out?

“We should, like, what? Give him a year to figure out his life and move out?”

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A year later, Lake Charles still seeking federal aid

Hurricane Laura wrecked southwest Louisiana a year ago, leaving marks of devastation that remain evident today in blue-tarped roofs, damaged homes and boarded-up businesses that still dot the region.

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Federal Building: Awakening the dream still possible

Sometimes dreams collide with reality. That’s what happened with the city of Ruston’s effort to save the 112-year-old Federal Building downtown.

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Time for Louisiana to come together once again

The morning-after scene following a disaster in Louisiana has been played like a horror movie on loop.

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President Biden should own the Kabul disaster

“Terror in Kabul.” That’s what a certain news channel branded its coverage of the two powerful suicide bombs that exploded in the sea of U.S. soldiers and Afghani civilians surrounding the Kabul airport.