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.
If you want to get depressed, download a news app on your cellphone.
Two public hearings this week showed why we need local government and what bring a public official requires.
Some consider the term “necessary evil” a bit trite, but discussion of issues over the past few weeks have kept that term at the forefront of one of the biggest issues facing Pointe Coupee Parish government.
The move into Phase 3 COVID-19 mitigation comes as a welcome sign for Pointe Coupee Parish, and the state, as a whole.
This will be the last column with an “impending grandfather” theme.
Changing times often bring uncertainty to residents, particularly those in rural communities.
You help your neighbors. It’s being neighborly.
Dear editor,
Last year, large crowds converged for two Mardi Gras parades in New Roads, and one in Livonia. Who could imagine how much life would change within weeks of these events?
“Nothing says baseball season like frozen roads and basepaths.”
How easy is it to juggle eggs?
During a time when cancellations and distancing have become so common in life, it’s been tough to find something we can define as normal.
Louisiana residents did not have to wait long to find out the effect President Joe Biden’s administration would have on the state.
Have you ever listened to a complaint, a complaint about the state of our nation, some parish service or a pothole in front of a home?
Timing is often the biggest catalyst in the chances for legislation to pass, but the opposite applies to a plan a state lawmaker wants to bring before state lawmakers during the 2021 legislative session.
It’s one thing to say our teachers and our school system need help.
Each year, the second Monday in January is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to honor and remember the work and goals of equality espoused by the civil rights leader.
No tears will shed from my eyes when we never hear the word “coronavirus” again – least in a present tense – but I also await when we will hear less of another word.
As The Banner went to press Wednesday, both houses of Congress were in session, although some might ask why.
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow’s death brought us a grim reminder on how COVID-19 can stop even the most vibrant people.
The year-end issue of The Banner usually ranks among the easier editions to compile, but it was a much different scenario this year.
Jokes appear to be bottomless when it comes to saying goodbye to 2020.
We’ve reached Christmas, which means one week of the year many of us would like to forget.
Well, this will be the last Christmas like this.
