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New Year thoughts from the Bayou State

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I always do. A New Year always brings with it promise and uncertainty, but this coming year brings with it a greater foreboding than we have experienced in the past.

LSUE food chief says service to expand

LSU Eunice’s dining hall is open to the public as well as its’ students. The dining hall operates from 7:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Saturday and Sunday it is opened from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

How do we restore our Christmas joy?

The best Christmas gift I ever gave anyone was the one I gave my father about 20 years ago: a Lionel train set.
Every year, we got him the same gifts, you see.

Remembering the Mosquito Bowl on Christmas Eve 1944

The endless college football bowl season is upon us. Beginning last weekend with the Mrytle Beach Bowl, and mercifully ending on January 8 with the College Football Playoff National Championship game, 43 games will be played.

Will you be busted by a ‘noise camera’?

“Just when you think it’s safe to be a jerk on the roadway…”
Motorists in many cities have grown accustomed to the likelihood of having their license plate photographed if they exceed the posted speed limit and/or run a red light.

Movie memories at Christmas time!

I don’t know about you, but I’m a real movie buff. I have always really liked going to the movies.

Let’s make America profane again

Here’s a regrettable trend: as profanity has become commonplace, swear words are losing their usefulness.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the language used in movies and television has gotten dramatically more profane .

Suppressing the Christmas spirits, sort of

Federal agents and local sheriffs worked overtime in Prohibition days to keep illegal spirits from making Christmas cheer too cheerful, but only with limited success.