My father grew up in New Orleans. So, about this time every summer, we made our annual trek to visit my South Louisiana grandparents. It was never a fun trip.
Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker was rightfully excited when he learned that Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a huge transportation infrastructure bill that includes the East Kentucky Avenue extension project.
For the second consecutive year, Louisiana lawmakers are debating the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, only this time the fight isn’t over mitigation measures or whether the pandemic is a partisan figment of somebody’s imagination.
My earliest memory of the Louisiana Peach Festival is of breaking out in hives after catching a nondefuzzed peach thrown from the back of a parade float.