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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
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Jim Beam column: CVS lawsuits won’t solve PBM concerns
Louisiana legislators and the state’s citizens got acquainted near the end of this year’s fiscal session with organizations ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:State closing primaries again
Louisiana’s elections will be a little different in 2026. The state is going back to closed political party ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Voters will see six amendments
Louisiana legislators approved only six of the 21 proposed state constitutional amendments that were filed for their fiscal ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:’We don’t agree. Can we talk?’
“Be careful what you say here because the sound carries.” I got that advice one day from someone ... Read more
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Jim Beam column: State Senate has cooler heads
The Louisiana Senate, as it has done for many years, helped make the recently concluded legislative fiscal session ... Read more