I was stunned Easter weekend to learn that President Biden had declared Easter Sunday to be “Transgender Visibility Day.” Easter, the highest, holy day of the Christian year for millions of Americans and still billions more around the world. That’s the day President Biden thought best to endorse and...

A few weeks ago, I received a call from a subscriber in south Louisiana – as in way south – near the Gulf, desperately seeking our help to keep her small-town newspaper from closing. Mrs. Cassie McCain has been a subscriber of The Jena Times for many years. While at LSU in Baton Rouge decades ago, s...

During the last week of February, I was sitting outside in my backyard in a short sleeve t-shirt, skirt, and flip flops enjoying the balmy unseasonal eighty-something degree weather when a mosquito bit me on the back of my leg. I instinctively gave that baby a good smack and sent it on to mosquito h...

“This whole election process just doesn’t work for me,” Dud said, sipping his coffee. “There’s no way we can tell who is best for the job.” Doc, being...

Dear Rusty: I am almost 63 and my husband will be 61 soon, and we are looking to see when our best time would be to start our Social Security benefits...

Remember that old saying “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?” I thought about this today while chewing fried chicken. I don’t know what othe...