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Nancy Bergeron, Add One

Shed the Santa stuff, give me Scrooge and the Grinch

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Let’s get one thing clear: I don’t like Santa Claus. I’ve never liked Santa Claus. Santa Claus is majorly disturbing.

Ronald Greene has become our George Floyd

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The Union Parish grand jury hearing the state’s case against at least some of the law enforcement officers involved in the fatal arrest three years ago of Black motorist Ronald Greene gets back to work today after a month’s hiatus because of witness scheduling issues.

Budget inaction saddles new council with old issues

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Last week’s decision by the mostly lame- duck Grambling City Council to reject the town’s proposed 2023 budget didn’t come entirely out of left field.

Five days in December pivotal for Grambling, Ruston

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The first five days of December could be pivotal for the two largest municipal governments in Lincoln Parish.

Maybe Thanksgiving isn’t really about Pilgrims at all

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Here we go again, the annual Thanksgiving column. Go ahead and yawn; it’s OK.

GSU afterparty shooting: Ignoring it doesn’t help

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Let’s say, for sake of argument, that Grambling State University officials really didn’t know that one person was killed and three others were injured at an unsanctioned alumni homecoming party when they distributed a rah-rah press release about how great and uneventful homecoming week had been.

Survey says: Louisianans won’t pay for hot air

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Here we go again. Somebody in Timbuktu declaring what Louisianans will do and when they’ll do it.

Moving beds was the first sign of winter

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About this time every year my grandmother rearranged the furniture in the bedrooms of the 1930s bungalow-style house in which my grandparents lived at 452 Columbia St. in Shreveport.

Renewed call for alcohol? Just hurry up and wait

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Limbo.

Ambulance issue: Hold the applause, the journey’s not over

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The applause, back slaps, and high fives that followed the Lincoln Parish Police Jury’s vote last week to select the Ruston Fire Department as the parish’s ambulance and rescue service provider for the next five years may have been well meaning, but don’t read the exhilaration as the end of the needlessly protracted journey.