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Landry’s point is to learn to listen

Madelaine Landry has a message she wants you to hear. Seriously, she wants you to listen. Landry, who recently retired as LSUE Foundation executive director, is owner of Listen Hear, LLC, located in the SEED Center, Lake Charles.

LSUE, UL recognition touted on CNBC website

A year ago, LSUE and the University of Louisiana Lafayette were named as one of six high-performing pairs of community colleges and universities with strong transfer student outcomes in a report from the Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia...

Fiscal year’s end worries some board members

The end of the St. Landry Parish School Board’s fiscal year this month has two board members questioning new Superintendent Patrick Jenkins’ spending.

Coushatta Tribe’s 22nd annual powwow is June 9-10

The Coushatta Tribe will hold its 22nd annual powwow in The Pavilion at Coushatta on Friday and Saturday. Admission for the general public is $5 per day; children ages 6 years and younger are admitted free of charge. Tickets are available at the gate on day of event at The Pavilion.

Support criminal justice reform compromise

Having spent over 20 years in public policy, I understand that compromise is often necessary to achieving reform. This is proving to be true with the criminal justice reform package working its way through the Louisiana State Legislature.

Making sense of the Middle East?

President Trump has just returned from a whirlwind trip to the Middle East. And he has vowed to keep a continuing and aggressive U.S. presence where American soldiers are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey and other states ringing America’s Middle Eastern battlefields.

Prairie Acadian Cultural Center hosts free Cajun music, dance lessons

Free workshops for accordion, fiddle, guitar and dance lessons are planned at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve’s Prairie Acadian Cultural Center. The workshops are sponsored by the Cajun French Music Association Acadiana Chapter.

Recent rains concern rice growers

Continual rainfall in the past few days has farmers worried about disease problems in their rice crop, an LSU AgCenter plant pathologist said at rice field days held in Jefferson Davis and Evangeline parishes.

Acadia clerk of court can issue death certificates

Acadia Parish Clerk of Court Robert T. “Robby” Barousse announced that the clerk’s office is able to issue certified death certificates from July 2012 to recent. Vital records will continue to make older death certificates as time goes on. This has been an ongoing effort for the past several years.

Budget funding restored

The Senate Committee on Finance unanimously moved to the Senate floor the state budget with amendments that restored funding cut from higher education, children and family services, corrections, veteran’s affairs and sheriff’s housing in the House version. House Bill 1, by Rep.