The President's Column: Saving the Bacon For some reason, bacon just can’t seem to stay out of the news.
As the nation’s severe drought wore on this summer, consumers became worried about higher food prices and shortages. What food produc...
Nov 07, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Mike Danna/La. Parish Farm BureauZachary Today.Com
And Down the Stretch They Come
Nov. 6 is almost here. It likely will be quite a horse race carrying on well into the evening election night. Like antsy thoroughbreds in their final warm-ups, Obama and Romney are pawing the dirt ...
Move Over, Saudi Arabia! Throughout my 40 years representing the business community—first with the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and then with LABI—I have been a student of energy issues and energy economics.
I was...
Libya and Lies It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this...
Who’s on first? There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (les...
The President's Column: Candidates on Farm Policy Ahead of the upcoming election, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney spelled out their positions on agriculture issues for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
In a questionnai...
Oct 29, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Mike Danna/La. Parish Farm BureauZachary Today.Com
Spending is a Bipartisan Obsession If you engage with government long enough, as I have, it is hard not to become cynical. Then again, cynics often see an unfiltered version of the truth. At this moment, politics weigh heavily upon ...
Random Thoughts Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whe...
The President's Column ~ Agriculture Biotechnology The French philosopher Voltaire famously said, “Common sense is not so common.” Activists trying to disprove the safety of agriculture biotechnology seem devoted to proving his witticism.
Another s...
Oct 18, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Mike Danna/La. Parish Farm BureauZachary Today.Com
The Role of the Coach in High School Sports According to legendary college football coach Lou Holtz, “We are on the field and in the locker room to teach our players how to win. Not just on the gridiron, but in any profession they choose. We...
Oct 17, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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Kenny Henderson/LHSAA Exec. DirectorZachary Today.Com
How Louisiana's tax climate stacks up nationally
The Tax Foundation has released its 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index. It ranks Louisiana in the bottom half of states at 32nd (the lower the number, the better the score in this index). The Ta...
Phony in Chief When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy admonishing the rest of us to be "civil" in our discussions of political issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations and...