Editorial

Soldiers fight for duty, honor, country

Mr. John Francois of Lafayette provides his thoughts regarding taking down of statues, reminds me of the statue in question in the Court House parking lot in Opelousas. I totally agree with Mr. Francois thoughts. “Soldiers do not fight for a political ideology.

State capitol gets its own police force

Many reporters and editors in Louisiana’s vast press corps seemingly failed, for unknown reasons, to discover, publish and inform us about a new state police force that was cunningly described as “to provide security services for the state capitol building.”

Select the next superintendent from within

Mr. John Dupre, Mr. Lanny Moreau, Mr. Henry Monteith, Mr. Ryan Fontenot, Mr. Claude Oubre, Mr. Bergeron and Mr. Nassif to name a few persons who lived and worked in this Parish and did serve as superintendent of schools in St. Landry Parish.

Try to pass wildlife legislation

Dear Editor The U.S. Congress failed just short in December of passing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help protect our national wildlife heritage.

Let the veterans take care of Confederate monument

Had the Parish Council made the right decision initially early on when I made a request that the “Confederate monument” be placed in the care of the St. Landry Parish Veterans Honor Guard and 5,500 veterans of this parish, we would not be thinking of the monument.

John Kennedy for Senate

John Kennedy was raised in Zachary, and graduated from Zachary High School. He graduated magna cum laude in political science, philosophy and economics from Vanderbilt University and was president of his senior class.

State Treasurer’s Office has $900M in unclaimed funds

Readers of your newspaper should find extra value in reading your paper Thursday when the State Treasurer’s Office will publish the names of individuals for whom we received new, unclaimed property money in the preceding year.

Superintendents oppose school grade change

The following is a letter from the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents. St .Landry Parish School Superintendent Patrick Jenkins is president of the association.

Memories from the summer of 1962

June 1962 was the opening of Gurney Baseball Park. At last we had organized baseball, as we had played backyard, empty lot games with neighborhood kids. If our wooden bats broke or cracked we would nail, glue and tape them back together. So, here I was, a 9-year-old, red-hair and freckles.

A litany of woes for the U.S.

Time for hard-working taxpaying Americans to wake up and take action.