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Icicles formed on road road signs after Monday’s rain quickly froze as temperatures plummeted in the afternoon. Morning lows on Tuesday and Wednesday dipped into the upper teens. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Icicles formed on road road signs after Monday’s rain quickly froze as temperatures plummeted in the afternoon. Morning lows on Tuesday and Wednesday dipped into the upper teens. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Icy Tuesday

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Icicles formed on road road signs after Monday’s rain quickly froze as temperatures plummeted in the afternoon. Morning lows on Tuesday and Wednesday dipped into the upper teens. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Pandora has trapped the Federal Reserve

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Pandora’s Box was opened by the Fed’s in 2009, and Fake Zero Interest Rates escaped along with all the economic ills of MMT (“Modern Monetary Theory” where Deficits don’t matter), QE 1,2, and 3 to bring misery soon to most of mankind.

Not even the death of a mother is off limits in today’s politics

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
There are two things that should be completely off limits: a person’s children and a person’s grief. You do not mock a child, something that we often forget when that child happens to belong to a politician we despise, and you do not make fun of someone in the depths of mourning.

What makes Saban a great coach?

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
I don’t normally write a sports column, but a few words would seem appropriate after Alabama’s football coach Nick Saban announced his retirement last week. Simply put, love him or hate him, Nick Saban was the nation’s best college coach in recent years, and maybe the best college coach ever.
Ronnie Levy. (LSU AgCenter photo)

Ronnie Levy. (LSU AgCenter photo)

Louisiana’s rice specialist receives national rice award

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Ronnie Levy knows rice. For four decades and in various roles with the LSU AgCenter, Levy has helped Louisiana farmers grow many of the state’s economically important crops, but much of the focus has been on what is the backbone of so many Louisiana dishes — rice.
Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette blesses the three copies of the Acts of the Cause for the canonization of Charlene Marie Richard, “The Little Cajun Saint,” during a ceremony at St. Edward Church in Richard on Saturday. Two of the three copies will be delivered by hand to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints directly across from Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and the original will remain sealed in the archives of the Diocese of Lafayette. (Photo by Claudette Olivier/Crowley Post-Si

Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette blesses the three copies of the Acts of the Cause for the canonization of Charlene Marie Richard, “The Little Cajun Saint,” during a ceremony at St. Edward Church in Richard on Saturday. Two of the three copies will be delivered by hand to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints directly across from Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and the original will remain sealed in the archives of the Diocese of Lafayette. (Photo by Claudette Olivier/Crowley Post-Si

Praying for the ‘Little Cajun Saint’

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Cold weather did not keep the faithful from praying for — and to — their “The Little Cajun Saint” as the process for the Cause for Canonization of Charlene Richard moves forward. John Dale Richard, brother to Charlene, spoke to the crowd of faithful who gathered in an outdoor area at St.

St. Landry Parish sales tax collections increased 5.8% in 2023

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
St Landry Parish sales tax collections rose 5.8% in 2023 compared to 2022 collections, according to statistics released by the St. Landry Parish School Board tax division. Collections in 2023 totaled $95,410,949, up $5,268,797 over the 2022 collections of $90,142,152.
Gov. Jeff Landry shakes hands with Louisiana lawmakers while entering the State Capitol’s House chamber on Jan. 15, the first day of a special session on redistricting and election matters. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate, Pool)

Gov. Jeff Landry shakes hands with Louisiana lawmakers while entering the State Capitol’s House chamber on Jan. 15, the first day of a special session on redistricting and election matters. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate, Pool)

Bipartisan push for Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
On the first day of a federal court-ordered redistricting special session, which also fell on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Louisiana’s elected officials appeared to adopt a motto from the civil rights leader. “It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing,” King said in a 1964 speech.
Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests report

Myra Miller
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The following are arrests by Eunice Police. Tuesday, Jan. 16 Juvenile, 16, Eunice. Disturbing the peace, battery on a school teacher, warrant from previous incident in 2023. Wednesday, Jan. 17 Gavin Guidroz, 22, 1700 block of West Vine, Eunice. Bench warrant for 27th Judicial Court.