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Obedient plant has tall, purple flower spikes that pollinators love.

Obedient plant has tall, purple flower spikes that pollinators love.

Fall is for planting flowering perennials

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
From the LSU AgCenter Fall is an ideal time for planting flowering perennials. And we could write a long list of reasons why you should think about adding some to your garden. First, perennials don’t have to be replaced each season like short-lived annual bedding plants.

American Indians have a long history in baseball

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Between 1884 and 1947, from the year that Moses Fleetwood Walker played for the American Association’s Toledo Mud Hens until the Brooklyn Dodgers inserted Jackie Robinson into the lineup, the most prominent minority in baseball was American Indians.

Why kids can’t walk alone

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
A story from my childhood came to mind as I read a recent ABC News report about a mother who was arrested after her son was seen walking alone to the Dollar Store a half mile away from his home.

Cool weather revives a culinary debate

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
When the first cold front pushes into south Louisiana in late fall, the thoughts of right-thinking people naturally turn to gumbo. Everyone agrees, or should, that cool weather and gumbo go together like, well, gumbo and rice.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is calling on LSU to punish a law professor for comments he made about the presidential election in the classroom. Administrative law professor Nick Bryner drew the ire of the governor for calling on students who voted for Donald Trump because they like his policies, and not him personally, to prove it through their actions. Landry posted a video of Bryner’s comments on social media last week.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is calling on LSU to punish a law professor for comments he made about the presidential election in the classroom. Administrative law professor Nick Bryner drew the ire of the governor for calling on students who voted for Donald Trump because they like his policies, and not him personally, to prove it through their actions. Landry posted a video of Bryner’s comments on social media last week.

Landry wants LSU law professor to be punished for election comments

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
By Piper Hutchinson Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is calling on LSU to punish a law professor for comments he made about the presidential election in the classroom.
Pecans grow on a tree in Pointe Coupee Parish in early November. (Photo by Kyle Peveto/LSU AgCenter)

Pecans grow on a tree in Pointe Coupee Parish in early November. (Photo by Kyle Peveto/LSU AgCenter)

Dry early fall affecting pecan quality for some producers

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
By Kyle Peveto kpeveto@agcenter.lsu.edu BATON ROUGE — Some Louisiana pecan producers could amass a larger pile of rejected nuts because of abnormally dry weather through the late summer and early fall, said Michael Polozola, the LSU AgCenter state fruit and nut specialist.
Top 5 Combined Sales Tax

Top 5 Combined Sales Tax

State takes the lead with sales tax rate

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
By Ella Ray LSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE – It’s not often that Louisiana leads the country in any category. But for several years, the state has gone above and beyond in one category: sales tax.
Jim Brown

Jim Brown

Kennedy’s controversial views on our health

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
The person who heads up the federal Department of Health and Human Services is quite essential to Louisiana. Louisiana citizens, bless their souls, are in large numbers, poor, unhealthy, and aging at a higher rate than many other states.
Whether you call it stuffing or dressing, or make it with rice or cornbread, this side dish is a staple on many Thanksgiving tables. It has a number of regional variations in Louisiana. (Photo by Tobie Blanchard/LSU AgCenter)

Whether you call it stuffing or dressing, or make it with rice or cornbread, this side dish is a staple on many Thanksgiving tables. It has a number of regional variations in Louisiana. (Photo by Tobie Blanchard/LSU AgCenter)

Thanksgiving dressing recipes vary by regions

Myra Miller
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
By Quincy Vidrine qvidrine@agcenter.lsu.edu WINNSBORO — The LSU AgCenter has nutrition and community health agents across the state, and our mission is focused on your food, family nutrition needs and improving health and overall quality of life.