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From the Other Side: No Rights
The United States Congress has authorized what some claim will mean unmanned drone aircraft to fly over U.S. skies, possibly as many as 30,000 by the year 2020. These would be available to federal...
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Kudos & Kvetch: Tell us what you want ... what you really, really want
By JEAN L. KAESS I’ve been asked why I haven’t been writing columns lately. The answer is simple. I haven’t had anything to say. It is time to change that. Various recent situations have made m...
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Mackrophone: When is a recruit not a recruit? Good question
By MACK SPENCER Private schools recruit. This should be no secret to anybody. Private schools don’t have the built-in advantage of public schools to expect the enrollment of any school-aged child...
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From the Other Side: Once More, With Feeling
And another dadgum thing, while I’m on my high horse. What’s going on with the various so-called developments on the horizon, in Garden City and across the bayou from Parc sur la Teche? Anyone? Th...
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From the Other Side: What Else Is Eating At Me
It’s time to get some things off my chest, and it ain’t going to be pleasant for either of us, I’m afraid. After several kind and helpful replies to last week’s column, “How It Happened,” I decide...
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From the Other Side: How it Happened
By ROGER EMILE STOUFF I was mourning my seemingly endless inability to write anything but political columns lately, and then only once a week or so, when I stumbled upon the root of my problem. I...
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From the Other Side: Dimwits, Et. Al.
The dimwits in Washington keep making it more and more difficult for you and I to make an honest living. Here we go, gas is going up because—you guessed it—Iran’s acting like a big buffoon AND the...
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From the Other Side: January
January, and I can’t complain too much about the weather, though those may be famous last words. The worst may yet be ahead of us, but so far, this has been a pretty tolerable winter. I have been ...
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From the Other Side: Tidbits
Sometimes, the news is just appalling enough it stands for itself, which is good, because I don’t know that I feel like writing today! Here’s a great place to start: “Demobilized soldiers will be...
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From The Other Side: Wish Me Rivers
God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows, cheap whiskey and branch water. Which way’s heaven? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream. – Arby Mulligan, Hymn No. 1 (the ...
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Kudos & Kvetch: The moments of 2011 that make one say, "C'mon, Man!"
By JEAN L. KAESS It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? Together, the collective consciousness of the Tri-City area has suffered through a massive flood threat and felt the pain of a family mourning ...
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Stoute's Honor: Councilman Manfre, where were you when your city needed you?
By GEOFFREY STOUTE It’s unknown what exactly Morgan City Councilman Luke Manfre was doing — other than being out of town — during the hours of 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. However, it’s quite ...
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