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Jim Beam column: Flood insurance costs rising

The cost of my National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) coverage has doubled over the last six years. However, ...

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Jim Beam column:Leave new bridge money alone

The Louisiana Legislature faces a $587 million shortfall for the 2025-26 fiscal year and has some alternatives for ...

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Jim Beam column:Don’t tinker with civil service

The state’s classified civil service employees came close during the recent legislative session of losing the job protections ...

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Jim Beam column: Auto premiums ‘eating our lunch’

When it comes to auto insurance, Louisiana motorists definitely “got the short end of the stick” at the ...

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Jim Beam column:Landry closing public records

When it comes to releasing public government records, Gov. Jeff Landry has stolen a page out of former ...

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Jim Beam column:Popular mail-in voting targeted

Americans love mail-in voting, but Republican-led legislatures are doing their best to make absentee voting more difficult. Louisiana ...

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Jim Beam column: Constitution is safe — for now

Louisiana citizens have apparently been spared the possibility that the state Legislature might meet for another special session ...

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Jim Beam column: Calcasieu voters face changes

Calcasieu Parish legislators through the years have succeeded in keeping all of the parish in the same congressional ...

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Jim Beam column:Biden earns right to finish job

Republicans’ callous calls for Democratic President Joe Biden to resign less than six months from the end of ...

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Jim Beam column:Constitution plan resurrected

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, some public officials and legislators and one major GOP campaign contributor refuse to accept ...

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