Letters
The offshore drilling life: cramped and dangerous
The 160 workers on Shell’s Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater. Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well - about $60,000 a y...
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LETTER to EDITOR: Haynesville Shale’s impact reaches far beyond severance taxes
Dear Editor, The Advocate’s recent opinion article entitled, “Wells a bust for the state,” claims that while the Haynesville Shale is booming, it has been a bust for Louisiana because the state is...
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Dec. open letter to Mayor-President Kip Holden
Open Letter to Mayor Holden, An East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control employee made an inappropriate and erroneous statement to an Iberville Parish employee which resulted ...
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Stacy Gill, editor of the Zachary Plainsman, has not finished her holiday shopping.
Making a list and checking it more than twice
I am still in somewhat of a state of denial about the fact that Christmas is here again! This past year has flown by...as fast as Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve night. (And I'm assuming they are...
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Letter to the Editor - Lane RMC stay nice
Received via e-mail Nov. 18 Dear Editor: I recently spent one week in the Lane Hospital Rehabilitation Center after I left the Lake hospital in Baton Rouge for a total knee replacement! I would ...
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Letter to the Editor - Family unhappy with "unfortunate article"
Received via e-mail Nov. 15 Recently, my family was made aware of an unfortunate article in the Zachary newspaper titled “The Lady in the Little Pink House." It appears as if the purpose of the ar...
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Letter to Editor - Broadband access for all
Oct. 31 Dear Editor, My name is Delores Wells and I am grateful for places like the Council on Aging Centers in Pontchartrain Park and other communities. I frequent the center at least 3-4 times...
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Letter to editor complains about speed cameras on Hwy. 19
Letter received via e-mail Nov. 1 Good day.  I am a visitor to this area, coming here every other week to visit a key industrial customer. I’m spending money at a hotel in Zachary, eating at resta...
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Stacy Gill will be voting on Saturday, Oct. 22, and cruising polling places in Zachary looking for YOU!
Voting is a right AND a privilege
It wasn't that long ago (1920), that women in this country won the right to vote. Essentially, women had no say so in the way this country was run. It is hard to imagine. Today, politicians are pe...
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We endorse and recommend Amendment #1
Vote for Constitutional Amendment #1. A vote for Constitutional Amendment #1 will protect TOPS funding by redirecting annual Tobacco Settlement proceeds from the Millennium Trust to its college sch...
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“It’s Fire Prevention Week. Protect your Family from Fire!”
Oct. 4 Dear Editor, Do you know what a smoke alarm sounds like? Did you remove the batteries when they started chirping instead of replacing them? If it did sound, would you know what to do? Th...
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Letter to the Editor: Proposed tax on oil industry is really on ourselves
To: Editor Sept. 22 Reporters interviewed several people on the impact of President Obama’s proposed repeal of tax breaks for oil and gas. They omitted one key person: anyone who has completed th...
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