Letters
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Tenure and Academic Freedom: Victims of Judicial Misconduct?
Imagine playing in a tennis match. You have played three of five sets and won two of them.  It is your opponent’s turn to serve. They serve a fault.  The judge motions for them to serve again.  The...
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gun Bills
By Pamela Mitchell, CAE Executive Director Louisiana Press Association Wednesday, April 17, 2013, should go down in history as the day the Second Amendment trumped the First Amendment i...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor: HB 527 allows for quality eye care in Louisiana
April 18, 2013 Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to praise the legislative members of the State House Committee for Health and Welfare for passing HB 527 to give greater access t...
Apr 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Buck Leonards is a farmer in Acadia Parish and Publisher of Louisiana Farm and Ranch Magazine.
La. rice industry deserves better
These are unsettling times in the rice industry and for rice farmers in our state and across the nation.  We are facing a farm bill that will eliminate direct payments next year and make our bottom...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor: My right to bear arms
When I was a kid, my dad taught me to aim and properly shoot a 22 rifle. I grew up with guns in our home and never once did we have an accident. Just knowing we had a handgun made us as a large fam...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Looking in on the Zachary community
Letter to the Editor praises local businesses, citizens for warmth, kindness
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jacob Lewis, 28, of Walker. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Lewis family thanks all who helped in search for son
*EDITOR'S NOTE:  Jacob Lewis, 28, of Walker, went missing Jan. 31 near the Belle River Landing in Assumption Parish after returning by boat with his wife from scouting locations to set crawfish t...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor - Keep La. Beautiful
Dear Editor, With the coming of a new year, many of us take the opportunity to make resolutions -- about losing weight, working a little harder at our jobs or spending more time with family. One r...
Jan 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Opinion Letter: Publicize school letter grades of RSD
I have been reading about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s promoting the Recovery School District (RSD) as an example of the success of his educational reform package. I am not sure how Jindal qualifies “succes...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to the Editor: Zachary Public Cemetery
Letter to the Editor RE: Zachary Public Cemetery Received via e-mail Dec. 14 This is no newfangled cemetery with lots of bells and whistles. It is still a simple country cemetery where men with sh...
Dec 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter: Louisiana needs an exchange
(By U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu – Dec. 11) In his first interview after the November elections, Gov. Bobby Jindal called for an end to what he called “dumbed-down conservatism” and “bumper-sticker ...
Dec 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Zachary Superintendent Scott Devillier (PHOTO/Stacy Gill)
Superintendent Devillier provides clarity on Dec. 8 millage measure
Dear Zachary Community School Supporter,   Thanks to the hard work of our students and teachers, and the overwhelming support of our community, Zachary Community Schools received the number one ran...
Dec 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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