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- More Louisiana editorials
- The News Star, Monroe, La. On: Success in unity The words stung in April 2006, when then-Secretary of Economic Development Michael Olivier talked tough with local officials. At that point, Olivier said the state was working on 53 active…
- Dispatch
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- 12 hours ago
- Louisiana Commissioner: Help Available for Victims of Chinese…
- Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says homeowners whose properties are contaminated with defective Chinese drywall and who have been covered for more than three years by their homeowners insurer have the right to continue…
- Insurance Journal
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- 20 hours ago
- A Defining Moment
- Friday the 13th was very lucky for IberiaBank shareholders. The announcement that day that the company had purchased two failing Florida banks registered a 3.5 on the national financial Richter Scale, but it sent a major shockwave through…
- The INDsider
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- 2 hours ago
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- Washington Bureau - JIM TANKERSLEY Reporting from St. Tammany Parish, La. By the time climate change pushes sea levels high enough to swallow Cliff Glockner's stilt house northeast of New Orleans, most of the low-lying Gulf islands he…
- Chicago Tribune
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- 1 hour ago
- Weird but true
- Some people will be forgiven for complaining about getting s- - - for Christmas. An Illinois zoo has added sparkling reindeer-dung necklaces to its gift shop for the holiday season. The $15 pendants contain dried, sterilized deer droppings…
- New York Post
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- 1 hour ago
- Community rallies to remodel Kingdom Hall
- The Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in east Great Falls was built in three days in 1984 by a slew of volunteers. The volunteers are back — about 500 of them — to remodel the place of worship. "It's kind of like an old-fashion barn raising,…
- Great Falls Tribune
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- 52 minutes ago
- Many alternatives available for those away from home
- Not everyone can be home for Thanksgiving. For some, there are alternatives. Capt. Mark Gilliam of the Salvation Army said they will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal on Thursday. "It's great," Gilliam said. "It's always a good…
- News-Star
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- 1 hour ago
- Photography Exhibit Showcases Vanishing Landscapes of the…
- This delta, full of history, culture, and industry, is sparsely populated and rarely seen in detail by outsiders, but is a landscape of vast beauty. Vanishing at a rate of one football field every fifteen minutes, this region consisting of…
- YAHOO!
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- 1 day ago
- Fur-wearers, dealers say Louisiana’s nutria make ‘beautiful…
- Nutria in the wild certainly don’t enjoy the admiring, star-struck crowds that surround the alligators and water birds. But strip the marsh-gnawing rodents of their blaring orange teeth and webbed feet, and the pelt that remains can draw a…
- Houma Courier
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- 11/22/2009
- Louisiana man arrested for allegedly running $19.5 million…
- A Tickfaw man was arrested on the north shore Friday for running a $19.5 million Ponzi scheme, the second case involving such a financial fraud in Louisiana this week. The arrest came about an hour after a federal grand jury in New Orleans…
- New Orleans Times-Picayune
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- 11/20/2009