Author: Jim Beam | American Press

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Jim Beam column: Delayed justice disrupts lives

Two of the most disturbing news stories I have read in a long time deal with the slow ... Read more

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Jim Beam column: Talking on phone doesn’t cut it

Public meetings are just that. They are always supposed to be open to the public. Some years ago, ... Read more

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Jim Beam column: What did those lawmen do?

The arrest of four Louisiana lawmen, the wife of one of them and a private citizen has left ... Read more

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Jim Beam column:Texas GOP wants more seats

Republican President Donald Trump and many GOP members are obviously concerned about the party’s possible loss of congressional ... Read more

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Jim Beam column:Remembering the Piccadilly

What do you think of when you think of Piccadilly? The Advocate in a Thursday story about the ... Read more

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Jim Beam column:Independent thinkers are rare

Moderates are leaving Congress as fast as chickens would run from an open coop. U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, ... Read more

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Jim Beam column: Scalise helps Iranian woman

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Jefferson, Louisiana’s No. 2 official in the U.S. House of Representatives, has ... Read more

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Jim Beam column: Driving has become tough job

The fact that strict enforcement of traffic laws in this part of the state is almost nonexistent might ... Read more

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Jim Beam column:Checks, balances don’t exist

Today’s Republican members of Congress and conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have apparently forgotten about the ... Read more

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Jim Beam column:Kennedy asks, ‘Where is Putin?’

When Louisiana’s Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy joined Congress in 2017, the Huffington Post in 2018 called him ... Read more