One of my earliest memories is lining up single file and walking from our kindergarten room at the former First Presbyterian Church on Bonner Street to the fire station on the next block.
Louisiana lawmakers have approved the state’s participation in a summer food program that could benefit approximately 594,000 impoverished children, over 2,800 of whom are in Lincoln Parish.
To hear Kevin Hicks tell it, as soon as he and his business partners open an extendedstay hotel, three eateries, and a dry cleaner in Grambling, the city’s economic development woes will be over — or at least considerably lessened.
In 2011, Congress ended federal earmarks. Ten years later, it brought them back. That decision to return to the old, though often controversial, practice, may be one of the best decisions ever made for the future of the city of Ruston.
