Small Business Week is being celebrated throughout America during the week of May 3-9, 2021. An annual event sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Association (SBA), the week is an opportunity for national and community leaders to recognize the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and sm...

My family didn’t eat gumbo when we sat at the table. We were meat and vegetable people. We didn’t eat shrimp or oysters because they were not available in the Jena area. In fact, we didn’t eat any seafood. We ate little wild game because that was not something that we wanted to eat. We ate a lot of ...

BATON ROUGE—A House committee advanced a bill Thursday to extend the time to prepare and verify absentee ballots prior to election day. It also advanced a bill that may soon allow your teenager to accompany you in the voting booth. Both bills were written by Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria. The bill...