I am sure living in your RV park is more convenient when it is in the city limits but it is not up to you. It is up to the Mayor and the town council. If you ever wanted to open up an RV park in Jena without any regulation whatsoever this is your chance. We could be on the verge of an RV park explos...

Along with millions of Americans, I watched the Trump-Harris debate this past Tuesday night. I generally saw what I expected to see.After the Trump-Biden debate in June with Biden being exposed as the addled staggerer he has become, the bar for Vice President Kamala Harris was a low one, which she m...

I remember years ago, listening to my Grandpa Jim Richmond, a Baptist minister for the final 35 years of his life, talk about how bad it was during the Great Depression and the years that followed. His generation survived the harshest of economic environments, having to scrap and save everything jus...

From the days of my youth, I recall with great fondness the presidency of President Ronald Reagan. Full disclosure—my brother Tom was working on the W...

During the decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s, LaSalle Parish’s economy was driven mainly by two industries: oil and timber. Timber was the first industr...

Pa Golden wasn’t my grandpa by blood, but he was my grandpa, nonetheless. Hard working, slow to speak and wearing thick lensed glasses that had thin m...