A couple of stories on the front page of this week’s edition of The Banner reinforce the adage, “Things are always changing.”
Where would we be without technology?
If you are like me, you suffer from seasonal allergies — sneezing, headaches, itchy eyes and cough, all due to pollen from local, native plants that bloom in autumn. Among many culprits, two of the most common are goldenrod and ragweed.
An excerpt from the book “A Song in the Wind, A Near Death Experience” by Sharon Milliman.
Generally speaking, investing is a long-term process. You invest in an IRA and 401(k) to reach a long-term goal – retirement.
“It never seems to end,” is the muttering of exasperation heard by parent or child, whether they are eyeing a load of laundry or a mountain of homework.
We often need to leave our element for a short time to realize how lucky we are. For yours truly, my trip to Galliano put my thoughts back into perspective.
I like wiener races, but I don’t think it can apply to grandsons.
Funding for Louisiana universities and public schools has received some boosts over the years, although teacher salaries and test scores remain under the Southern and national average.
In his day, New York City Mayor Ed Koch greeted city residents with the same question, “How am I doing?”
To agree and disagree is American as apple pie, even though it seems it has brought opposing factions further apart in recent years, but I can remember the one time it stopped.
The following is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
If you’re a grandparent, you don’t need Grandparents Day, to be observed Sept. 12, to remind you of the joys of grandchildren. Yet, you might want to use this day as an opportunity to think about ways to help provide for your grandchildren’s future.
In a tiny trailer were summers spent with grandma so pure, so simple, and right.
Government may not be a business, but some of the most important principles of business are derived through common sense.
High school sports began another season of games and dreams this week.
This writer was in college when Vietnam fell.
School is back in session for another year.
Hardships seem to find a dominant place in headlines for news online, on TV and in newspapers, like we’ve seen in the past two years.
If you’ve had an IRA and a 401(k) for many years, you may ask, “Am I contributing enough?” “Am I still funding these accounts with the right mix of investments for my goals and risk tolerance?”
A few months after the unexpected and tragic death of my dad, I had a puzzling three-day encounter with a bright redbird. The cardinal came each afternoon to launch an all-out attack on the glass windowpane of our sunroom.
God’s love appears in the most remarkable ways.
Two months ago, it seemed from all indications that the COVID-19 pandemic was done – now it’s done a 180-degree turn.
There was a time when three stations (NBC, CBS, ABC) were common on your TV and social media did not exist. If you wanted to find out about a new movie or TV series, entertainment critics were found in newspapers or magazines, and, rarely, on TV itself.
Sometimes it takes one incident to focus our attention on a bigger topic.
Some things aren’t quite the way they look from outside the looking glass, and I learned that lesson before my 13th birthday.
Our Founding Fathers wrote in the U.S. Constitution one of the rights we hold most precious as Americans.
When something some people tried to restrain for some time finally gets loose, people like to say, “The genie is out of the bottle.”
Thirty-five years seems long enough to make some reporters believe they have seen everything, but there always have been a few people we encounter who remind us never to believe that notion.
Dear editor:
As hard as it may seem to believe – without consulting a calendar – we are halfway through the year 2021.
Many youngsters are looking forward to fireworks and the Fourth of July celebration this weekend.
One year ago, an aggressive push was underway for residents to fill out a simple form.
I never liked the term “collateral damage.”
Imagine if you lived in a residential area your entire life and got news that a large industrial plant would locate less than a mile from your home.
A visit to a park often brings back memories for this middle-age man.
Air-conditioners on high, heat indexes making weather reports on radio and television and a blistering sun mean summer has arrived in Louisiana.
Dear editor:
How many times in life have we heard the term “avoid the middleman?”
And someone in the M&M household has expanded her job description.
OK, this is my baseball story.
We go into this weekend on the heels of Memorial Day, the weekend in which we as Americans honor military personnel who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
A drive eastbound along U.S. 190 in Tangipahoa Parish leads to a facility that the Pointe Coupee Sheriff’s Office and District Attorney’s Office view as a possible way to ease one of the biggest problems for the tri-parish region.
Two stories on the front of this edition of The Banner deal with people.
As someone who grew up in the 1980s, I loved football, baseball and basketball. But then there was one other sport that rivaled for my attention.
Pointe Coupee Parish Rene Thibodeaux has declared war on one form of crime.
The best and worst of times for Louisiana over the past century have coincided with what has been considered the state’s chief economic catalyst for most of those years.
Volunteer Week includes hospice workers
Finally, after years of ringing, beeping, running off and hiding in the sofa and demanding I text something to somebody, the common cellphone has a reason to exist.
Small-town governments face the same challenges as their large metropolitan neighbors when it comes to managing a budget and keeping an adequate number of employees in a police department.
