Last week on the phone I had a conversation with Terrie Queen Autrey of Ruston’s Domestic Abuse Resistance Team regarding a topic she and I have discussed many times.
In a little-noticed announcement released during the holiday season, the Census Bureau reported that the U.S. population had grown by a minuscule 0.1% during the year ending July 1, 2021.
Editor’s Note: The Ruston Daily Leader’s new feature of Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down is our view on topics that have created a positive, or negative, buzz in the community.
What we have here is a failure to communicate. That, in effect, is what 3rd Judicial District Judge Bruce Hampton surmised in court last week about the standoff between the Grambling City Council and Mayor Ed Jones.
The longer President Biden lingers in the vicinity of a live microphone, the higher the probability for mischief and yes, entertainment. Given enough time, he may even accidentally recite Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities in its entirety.