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So, I was sitting around the house and noticed that the flowerbeds needed weeding and the sidewalks, driveway, fence line and nearly everything else in the yard needed trimming. I looked at Bobbye and she was not hopping into her work clothes, and I knew there was no one else in the house who was going to do the work.

The emperor is naked

As was only fitting on St. Patrick’s Day, my brother Tommy and I congratulated each other on our hardy Irish peasant genes. Centuries of living on dirt floors with pigs, we smugly agreed, have rendered us Micks immune from contagion.

Opinion

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Ways that Census data is used

Ways that Census data is used

Pets are part of the family

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pet is part of the family, not the A responsibility of the animal shelter when it is inconvenient for owners.

Coronavirus creates strange politics in Louisiana

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Disasters often make strange bedfellows, but the new coronavirus has thawed some of the frostiest relationships in Louisiana politics — or at least quieted much of the public feuding.

Opinions

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Learning from my aunt’s polio experience

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My Aunt Cecelia was just beginning the eighth grade when it happened. In late spring 1951, she came home from school with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out as she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was so weak she could barely move.

Do you support the ‘Virginity Rocks’ movement?

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Not that you were so brazen as to ask, but one of my greatest sources of pride as an old, happily married man is that I always managed to resist the siren call of premarital sex.

Businesses need our support now more than ever

When you are shopping, please remember to spend with our local businesses, even if that sometimes means spending a few dollars more. The emergency declarations due to the Covid 19 pandemic are truly hurting our businesses. Store shelves might be empty but that does not spell profit for a business. If they are having trouble receiving deliveries or certain goods, they cannot make money. They must continuously turn over goods and services to make a profit.