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D.W. Wilbur: American politics are exhausting

May 10, 2022

I don’t know about the rest of you, but politics in America has become really, really exhausting. We bounce around from one freaking political or government crisis to the next one, and we’re never given a single moment to try to catch our breath. Every single day Democrats are calling anyone who doe...

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Southern Slang What They Say/What This Means

May 10, 2022

I’ve heard that English is the most difficult language to learn because it was pieced together from other languages. For people learning English there is another compounding problem. Slang and we have plenty here in the South. We all know and understand this slang and what it means or do we? Here ar...

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“A Great Time to Get Old”

May 10, 2022

“It’s a great time to get old!” That’s what my husband, Peter, says. He’s right. And getting old is—as the saying goes—better than the alternative. I was thinking this while waiting for my father to get a pacemaker. My father had no idea he needed a pacemaker until two days before he got one. They h...

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Derek Hunter: Journalists are more corrupt than President

May 3, 2022

When Rachel Maddow got her hands on the first page of one of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns it was a “STOP THE PRESSES!!!!” moment for th...

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Seeds of Hope

May 3, 2022

The road to spiritual, mental and physical healing is often long and difficult. Sometimes it takes us through long periods of dark days and long night...

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Be thankful you live where you live

May 3, 2022

I was out of the office for nearly a week following Easter as I traveled to Honduras for a mission trip with our mission ministry, The Shepherd’s Proj...

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LSU Survey: Cost is the main barrier to having broadband internet

May 3, 2022

In the fifth installment of the 2022 Louisiana Survey, released Tuesday, residents say the most common barrier to having broadband internet is the cos...

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Dear Editor:

May 3, 2022

As Funeral Director’s we do our very best to honor and respect the wishes of the ones who have passed, as well as the families left behind. We spend c...

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Let Jesus In

“Little Pig, little pig, let me in!” “Not by the hair of my chinnie chin chin!” Most everyone recognizes these lines from the nursery rhyme “The Three Little Pigs.” If you clean the cob webs out your memory you remember this is the story of how the Big Bad Wolf tried to get into the house of the Three Little Pigs. The first two he was successful but the third house made out of bricks he was not.

May 3, 2022

“Little Pig, little pig, let me in!” “Not by the hair of my chinnie chin chin!” Most everyone recognizes these lines from the nursery rhyme “The Three...

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Keeping the public’s business public

May 3, 2022

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the March 19, 2014 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Fran...