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Now that the high-tech, multi-million-dollar, Super Pac-driven campaign for governor is over, you’ll probably notice the contrast in this story about campaigning a couple of decades ago.

Term limits were approved by Louisiana voters in 1995 by a vote of 76 percent, but they didn’t go into effect until roughly eight years ago.
With just three terms allowed, amounting to 12 years, that means lawmakers and everyone else are still getting used to the revised timeline.

The news is a couple of months old, but it’s too good to pass up. And it does have a local angle. It turns out we’re right in the middle of happyland. And that’s the conclusion of the professional thinkers at Harvard University and the University of British Columbia.

Apparently the boll weevil is in good part responsible for that gang of fire ants that infests your yard and sneers at you when you try to kill them.

South Louisiana Community College Chancellor Dr. Natalie Harder took more questions than are usually brought up to guest speakers during this month’s Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce meeting, causing a rare extension of the meeting by some 15 minutes Wednesday, August 27.

Our addiction to lawsuits is hurting us in more ways than we realize.

Down on the Bayou in my home state of Louisiana, there’s a feeding frenzy going on. Now, if you live in the state but have been on vacation, say in the Ukraine, you may not be aware that the Fifth District Congressman Vance McAllister is in a real pickle and has created quite a mess for himself.

When “Old Cousin Ben” Fontenot died in the St. Landry Parish community of Grand Prairie in December 1903, he was mourned as a Confederate hero who was “in that glorious band that fought on every bloody battle field” in Virginia during the Civil War.

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana State Police, in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, announced today the implementation of a statewide Traffic Incident Management system (TIM), a multi-disciplinary and systematic approach to keeping our roadways safe.

BATON ROUGE, La. – A winter storm that blanketed most of Louisiana in snow and ice, shutting down schools and businesses, didn’t cause much damage to the state’s agriculture. Kurt Guidry, an LSU AgCenter economist, conducted a survey of major commodities.