Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation, and possibly his career on the nation’s second highest court.

More than 800 miles separate Livingston Parish from North Carolina, but the damage estimates from flooding related to Hurricane Florence could hit very close to home.

The descriptions we have heard in the past week sound like words that described our area not long ago.    

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As Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Eastern Seaboard, members of the Cajun Navy packed supplies, filled gas tanks, and hitched their boats in preparation for a trip northeast to help residents of the Carolinas survive and recover from a storm the likes of which they have not seen in decades.

  To the casual observer of Louisiana politics, the race for Louisiana’s next House speaker is still 16 months away. To the unofficial residents of Capitoland and its many external subjects, the starter pistol for this high-stakes marathon was discharged an eternity ago, or at least it feels…

In many ways, the 2016 election was a victory for capitalism, with an allegedly socialist intellectual president giving way to a real estate mogul whose understanding of business would unleash prosperity.

Is President Donald Trump about to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war? For that is what he and his advisers seem to be signaling.

(Editor's note: After The Livingston Parish News went to press, Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn rescinded his ban on the purchase of Nike products by the city's booster clubs.)

Will Louisiana teachers finally come closer to the Southern average on pay? If Gov. John Bel Edwards has his way, it could come closer to the average next year.    

When will the bridge on N. River Road be reopened? 

The speed at which a project moves often indicates the amount of celebration that comes with the completion.

  There’s a Boudreaux in Terrebonne Parish and a Thibodaux in Lafourche — and that ain’t no joke. 

Governor's pipeline support welcome

"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer,” said President Donald Trump ruefully, “I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen.” Michael Cohen is no Roy Cohn.

Many of us love to ponder the “what if” questions in life. 

Ask most 25 years or older where they were on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, and they’ll likely give an exact account of what they did that day.    

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Editor’s note: McHugh David is dealing with a family health issue. He will return next week. The News appreciates your patience and understanding.

Quick!Think of the names of four fictional mayors. I’ll do the same. (No, there aren’t any other rules. Just select your make-believe characters from books, movies, song or any other medium.) 

Development story was correct

“If McCain’s Death Leaves Void” ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began:

The last week has given Americans a lot of reason to weigh out what they admired most in Sen. John McCain -- along with what they liked least. 

Plans are underway to begin the first phase of construction this fall on the long-awaited Northshore Technical and Community College in Walker.    

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Around and around we go, where we’ll stop? Nobody knows!

Not too long ago, at least in reporter years, I was utilizing the space in this weekly column with some regularity to write about the loss of influence and clout in Louisiana’s congressional delegation.

Some suggestions for legslators

If former CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance.

The season is changing, believe it or not.

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It appears that public-private partnerships are becoming more mainstream – and it has all the potential to be a good thing.

It has been three months since the Louisiana Legislature concluded its regular session without addressing the war cry for a constitutional convention. Sure, it passed a set of resolutions honoring the 45th anniversary of the 1973 con-con, but supporters were hoping for more of a forward-look…

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On Friday, Aug. 10, deep into the 17th year of America’s longest war, Taliban forces overran Ghazni, a provincial capital that sits on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar.

The age of technology which began in the years after World War II revolutionized the way Americans and most of the world go about life at work and in the home, but a flip side exists on the equation. 

Call it the next phase in the move to rebound from the August 2016 flood.   

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You ain’t nobody in Louisiana politics until somebody works for you. 

I grew up in Austin, Texas. At least that’s what we called it then. I’ve often said that after all the growth it has experienced, I barely recognize the city I once called home. If a new proposal goes anywhere, though, I won’t be able to call it home or Austin.

A war with Iran would define, consume and potentially destroy the Trump presidency, but exhilarate the neocon never-Trumpers who most despise the man.

Just under three months remain until the “Super Tuesday” primary elections, which will bring an assortment of local, parish and state items to voters on Nov. 6.

We’re less than one week from the two-year anniversary of the worst natural disaster in the history of Livingston Parish, a benchmark which will likely make many of us look at where we have come in the period since the storm.

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It’s been almost two years since water covered most of Livingston Parish. The Great Flood of 2016 saw 31 inches of rain fall over the Comite and Amite river basins in a short amount of time, which covered areas on both the eastern and western sides of the parish.

Is he in? 

Donald Trump, who assembled a winning coalition that included manufacturing workers, farmers, ranchers, people who ride Harleys and capitalists resentful of Barack Obama, is now doing his best to turn them all against him. His insistence on levying tariffs on a wide range of products is perf…

“Make America Great Again!” will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be recorded among the most successful slogans in political history.