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Jim Beam column:Four traffic jams too much

What could be worse than sitting in the Superdome in New Orleans watching the Saints lose a game 27-25 to the Atlanta Falcons in the ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Thursday, November 11, 2021 7:17 am

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Jim Beam column:Homes were Audrey’s targets

Rebuilding the over 1,200 Cameron Parish homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Audrey on June 27, 1957, and repairing the over 22,000 that were damaged ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Sunday, November 7, 2021 5:51 am

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Jim Beam column: How did 1957 victims recover?

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known as FEMA, wasn’t in existence on June 27, 1957, when Hurricane Audrey devastated Southwest Louisiana, and an American ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:15 am

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Seven SW La. lawmakers named ‘most valuable’

Seven Southwest Louisiana Republican legislators were among 40 state lawmakers named to the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s “Most Valuable Policymakers” list. The seven ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Wednesday, November 3, 2021 11:42 am

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Jim Beam column:’Don’t tell me what to do’

The news that many thousands of law enforcement personnel, firefighters and other government employees are refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccinations is difficult to understand. ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Sunday, October 31, 2021 11:12 am

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Jim Beam column:Quotes are encouraging words

“It is better to know less than to know so much that ain’t so.” If there was ever a quote that best describes the current ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:35 am

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Jim Beam column:Where do we go from here?

Many of us are terribly unhappy about our country right now. Congress can’t seem to get anything done. Parents are protesting the wearing of face ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Sunday, October 24, 2021 7:20 am

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Jim Beam column:Some past history helps

Many Americans today sound much like the men who put together this country’s first federal government. The original 13 colonies became independent states after the ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Thursday, October 21, 2021 7:26 am

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Jim Beam column:Senate election is headliner

Voters statewide will be deciding the fate of four state constitutional amendments on Nov. 13, and Calcasieu Parish voters will ballot in a special state ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Sunday, October 17, 2021 7:38 am

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Jim Beam column:Time to draw election lines

A joint committee of Louisiana legislators will begin a series of 10 meetings next Wednesday aimed at getting citizens in different areas of the state ... Read more

by Jim Beam, Thursday, October 14, 2021 7:15 am

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