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Jim Beam column:School choice has poor history
Much has been written recently about school choice, which means giving parents government money they can use to ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Movie highlights injustice
The morning after watching a movie about a wrongly convicted Alabama Black man on death row, I was ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Don’t worry. Trump is fixer
Sleep well tonight. President Donald Trump is working on many of our problems here at home and some ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Landry tries to pull fast one
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry continues to copy the tactics of President Donald Trump, his mentor, by changing rules ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Second Harvest news unsettling
Some news about Second Harvest Food Bank, one of my favorite charities, is extremely disturbing. Archbishop Gregory Aymond of ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Professor back in classroom
An East Baton Rouge Parish district judge struck a positive blow for freedom of speech Thursday when he ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Trump, Landry on same page
Republican President Donald Trump and Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry are both government deregulators. However, ask Google who ... Read more
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Jim Beam column:Trump delivers one surprise
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to satisfy his voters and supporters. However, even some of them were ... Read more
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SW La. project among those in state flood and restoration plan
A Southwest Louisiana coastal protection project is among six major projects in the state’s proposed $1.8 billion flood ... Read more
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Jim Beam column: Wildfires, Katrina among worst
A former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has linked the devastating California wildfires to Hurricane ... Read more