It’s been a year since I started “Back to Our Roots,” and I think I’ve covered topics on every plant part. So for this week’s column, I thought I would go back to the root zone. While …

The U.S. holds $39 trillion in liabilities while only having $4.9 trillion in assets, leading the Department of the Treasury to say "the current fiscal path is unsustainable,” according to a recent …

The Biden administration is currently preparing regulations to drastically cut the number of new combustion combustion-powered vehicles sold in the United States. The new regulation being prepared by …

Amaryllis by morning, up from South America — I guess it doesn’t quite have the ring to it as George Strait’s hit song. One advantage we have, though, is our ability to grow Amaryllis bulbs …

The massive bank failures in recent weeks were due largely to a lack of solid hedging strategies – an important way for financial institutions to handle risk. Despite that, the Securities and …

The U.S. Postal Service is losing money fast. The beleaguered agency has already lost $2.1 billion in fiscal year 2023 and will likely burn through $60 billion to $70 billion before the end of the …

“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Luke 12:27 (KJV). Lilium longiflorum …

Economics is commonly described as the science of scarcity. We have limited resources, and we have to use them wisely. So there are trade-offs. In the old textbook example, if we want to spend …

April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes. Your landscape may look a little dull in May, though, if you haven’t planted any annual bedding plants in your beds or pots. I remember …

The United States trade deficit is close to $1 trillion and this should be a concern, especially for conservatives. Our trade deficit with China is $382 billion and in 2022 the United States imported …

Don’t itemize your taxes but still want to streamline your H&R Block experience this tax season? You’re in luck. A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., …

Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. That’s the way it goes with early spring planting. Warm weather can lure us into a false since of security, but if it works, it is worth the chance. We …

Dear Livingston Parish voters, This Saturday, we have an opportunity to invest in the future of our parish. A vote YES for the Livingston 1-cent sales tax is a vote YES for strong schools and …

Dear Editor, At the Live Oak town hall meeting, the following comment was made: “Teachers knew what they were getting paid when they took the job.” Teachers did know that. They knew …

Dear Editor, An acquaintance started his social media post, after casting an early vote on the upcoming election, with the following: “I did not vote against teachers today!” This reflects …

What a rollercoaster our weather has been. Azaleas blooming at the end of February and near freezing lows for the official start of spring. You never know what curve ball mother nature will throw our …

Dear editor, Inflation rates have soared over the past two years. The cost of food, gas, real estate, transportation, insurance, goods and services and everything else seems to keep going up. …

Dear editor, Here’s my ONE CENT.. My education is rooted in Livingston Parish Public Schools. Southside Elementary, Southside Jr. High and Denham Springs High school built me. My father …

At one time, Livingston Parish was synonymous with fresh strawberries. Family farms spread out and connected along the roads of eastern and southern portions of the parish. Strawberries were the …

The national debt is at $31 trillion and rising. The Congressional Budget Office has recently estimated that the Fiscal Year 2023 deficit could hit $1.4 trillion. The economy is still struggling with …

It looks like spring is here. Warm days and nights have everything turning green, either from new leaves or for the inch of pollen covering any and every object. Garden centers are overflowing …

The warnings keep coming that the force-fed energy transition to renewable fuels is destabilizing the U.S. electric grid, but is anyone in government paying attention? Another S.O.S. came Friday in …

Dear editor: As a voter in Livingston Parish, you will have an opportunity on March 25, 2023, to support education in a huge way. Our teachers, as well as bus drivers, cafeteria workers and …

Bright yellow strands hanging from the trees — I noticed these this past week while driving towards Springfield. This time of the year in south Louisiana, this could be Mardi Gras beads thrown a …

President Joe Biden and Congress should take a break from their ritualized wrangling over the debt ceiling and look closely at last week’s projections from the Congressional Budget Office. These …