Columns

Are you cool with surveillance cameras?

At my day job, we recently underwent a major upgrade of our security cameras.
Yes, shoplifting has gotten bad enough and technology has gotten good enough that we have made this major investment.

Cajun Indians are part of Mowata story

Several weeks ago, I reported the oft-told story that the Mowata community in Acadia Parish got its name because nobody could find a board long enough to print the original name of Morewater.

Things are not cool in California

In California, a historic heat wave has exposed yet again what big idiots the politicians in Sacramento are.

Trouble on the road to anywhere

Back in the days when there were no NFL games to keep us glued to the screen of our choice, we regularly piled into my Dad’s old Pontiac on a pleasant Sunday afternoon to take a ride in the country.

The danger of silencing words

I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, some of them endearing, most of them not.

Health care insurance confusion

I’m confused.
I got the flu a few months ago, the worst flu I’d ever had. It wasn’t COVID — I have never tested positive for COVID — but it was a humdinger.

Give me a news break

It wasn’t exactly breaking news back in June, but it did stir interest among journalists when CNN’s new boss, Chris Licht, conceded, “Something I have heard from both people inside and outside the organization is complaints we overuse the ‘Breakin