When the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana led to schools closing their doors for the rest of the academic year last spring, one of the questions on many minds was, how much will this dis
Dear Rusty: I am having problems getting answers from the national Social Security office or the local agent who I first spoke with to apply for my benefits. I am 70 in January 2021 and applied for benefits at the end of August 2020. I asked to have benefits start in October 2020 with my first payment received in November. I was told that the benefit for applying at age 69 and nine months would not be received until January of 2021.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s the chief of U.S. Naval Operation was a man named Elmo Zumwalt. He was from California and attended the highly traditional United States Naval Academy.
“We will never again sow division. Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.” That’s from Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” which she read at the recent inauguration.
Louisiana has joined the relatively short list of states with a mobile phone app that’s supposed to let users know if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19.
If there’s been one overarching theme for the local government bodies I cover over the past year or so, it would probably be the volume with which positions just keep on changing hands.
