Guest Columns

Take the money, or Legislature will

Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder has free money he wants to give away, but not enough people are taking it.

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Employer health insurance still viable

More than 55 million Americans have filed for unemployment since COVID-19 struck. But for the most part, they haven’t lost their health insurance. An astounding 98% of workers who had employersponsored health benefits before the pandemic are still enrolled in workplace plans, according to a July report.

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Voting wisdom comes with age

San Francisco residents will vote on a measure in November to allow teenagers as young as 16 to vote in local elections.

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Stealing an election in slow motion

This will come as news to most voters, but we’re having a two-stage presidential election this year.

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Lake D’Arbonne coming of age

In the early 1950s several businessmen from the Union Parish area sat together to discuss how to develop a project that at the time would have been considered to be an impossibility.

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Virtues of claiming SS benefits early

Dear Rusty: It seems like we are always encouraged to wait until our full retirement age or age 70 to claim our Social Security. For me, benefits at age 62 were a good jump start to my retirement.

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Don’t ask children, tell them instead

A grandmother in Arkansas says her adult children have great difficulty telling their children what to do. They turn instructions — more accurately, what they think are instructions — into questions and then wonder why their kids don’t seem to appreciate their timidity.