Editorial

Dems make their priorities clear

Senate Democrats ended February insisting on a procedural fight over the Women’s Health Protection Act, to get Republicans on record about the issue during a midterm election year. But if Americans realized just what the Women’s Health Protection Act is about, it should not only backfire as a strategy for the Dems, but would prompt an awakening about just how radical a country we’ve become when it comes to abortion.

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Full return of sports welcomed in JDP

After dealing with a widespread pandemic over the last couple of years, area athletes have continued to overcome adversities to enjoy a return to normalcy in the sports world in the 2021-2022 school year.

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Carry on a Cajun tradition this Easter

Soon many families across the nation will be making preparations to carry out some of their family’s favorite Easter holiday traditions.

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Do Biden and party have new hope for November?

There was a striking moment on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Moderator Chuck Todd brought up a poll recently released by National Public Radio and Marist that showed President Joe Biden’s job approval rating at 47 percent, with a disapproval rating of 50 percent. The screen showed that poll in contrast to another NPR/Marist survey from two weeks earlier that showed Biden’s approval rating at 39 percent, with a 55 percent disapproval rating. One poll was done before Biden’s State of the Union address and the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the other was done after.

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4-H creating leaders in agriculture

Our youth are the key to the future of sustaining nutritional needs for the world’s population.

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New approach needed in treatment of drug addiction

Often, drug addicts are treated as less than human when we should be focusing on treating addiction like it is any other disease.

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Don’t you just love laundry day?

I despise airing my dirty laundry in public, but I’ll make an exception for kvetching about my clean laundry.

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An anti-abortion victory begins Women’s History Month

Sometimes, the stars align, and things happen the way they’re supposed to. Like starting Women’s History Month with a wonderful gift to women, or at least the unborn kind.