New State Law Allows School Bible Courses

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June 20, 2023

State Representative Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, has authored legislation that authorizes public high schools in Louisiana to offer a course of instruction in the history and literature of the Bible.

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Home Fire Safety Urged By Fire Marshal

Staff Report

January 15, 2025

State Fire Marshal Chief Bryan J Adams urges Louisianans to be aware of and proactive about addressing home fire hazards after six lives were lost ove...

Community Events, News

Community Events

Wild Horse Ministries

January 15, 2025

Upcoming Events at the Library • Friday, Jan. 17: Crochet Level 2, 5-7 p.m. in Jena • Tuesday, Jan. 21: Creative Journaling, 5-7 p.m. in Jena • Friday...

Columns/Opinions, Editorial

It Was In The Paper!

Craig Franklin:

January 15, 2025

During the last two years since acquiring this newspaper, my social media life has been drastically downgraded. In fact, although I’m a member of Face...

Columns/Opinions, Editorial

The Gender Gap

January 15, 2025

Wives are caretakers. Husbands, shall we say, are caretakers too, just of a different kind and from an alternate universe. The extremes between the tw...

Columns/Opinions

The Continued Attacks on America

January 15, 2025

Here’s the way it looks on Tupelo Brake, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, and I will put this in the simple language of the real world that I still live i...

Columns/Opinions, Editorial

Zuckerberg Promises to End Censorship

Censorship he previously denied was occurring

January 15, 2025

“The truth will out!” William Shakespeare tells us, and it has. Certainly since at least 2020, millions of us have believed that speech — primarily co...