We were on a mission. Armed with a galvanized pail and rubber boots, we set out to scour the fence line that surrounded the cow pasture behind my grandparents’ house for every ripe blackberry. …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid enrollment ballooned from 23 million to 95 million as eligibility requirements were relaxed and states were given financial incentives to expand Medicaid rolls. …

It’s difficult to admit, but apparently, I’m not qualified to wash my hair — at least, not in Louisiana. The state requires shampoo assistants in hair salons to receive a special permit from …

I am a Louisiana native who recently returned to Louisiana after spending a few years away at graduate school. I’ve reconnected with old friends who work in the private sector who also recently …

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 NIV. My Mawmaw Lat knew vegetable gardening required constant …

(The Center Square) – Although the federal government will put tens of billions of taxpayer dollars into broadband infrastructure growth in the coming years, the regulatory scheme threatens to harm …

The federal government is set to award more than $42 billion in new grants to state governments this summer, with the goal of expanding high-speed internet access in areas that currently lack …

This past week, volunteers from the Livingston Master Gardener’s Association distributed pumpkin growing kits to more than 200 students in Livingston Parish who signed up for our pumpkin-growing …

Louisiana remains one of the top states hampered by sky-high prices amid a slow nationwide recovery from record inflation. The Pelican State is home to the fifth highest inflation rate in the country …

Chicago just elected an extreme progressive union organizer as its new mayor. Reports indicate the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) – an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – was …

Please, whatever you do this week, don’t forget Mother's Day is this Sunday. Mother's Day is set aside to honor those who are either our moms or have fulfilled the role of mother in our lives. …

Now that President Biden has announced his intention to run for a second term, economists and politicos are assessing whether his candidacy will be helped or hurt by the performance of the economy. …

Each day, the United States Treasury uses a readily-accessible webpage to update the public on the size of the national debt. Unfortunately, getting debt information for most U.S. state and local …

Between working on rebuilding my garden fence and helping with plant installations at the Master Gardener beautification project in Livingston, I am sore from head to toe. Gardening is great …

It’s not that easy to get a hold of LeBron James’ people. Few celebrities are accessible, but James occupies a rarefied stratum of fame in which even getting his representatives to acknowledge …

The Biden Administration’s much-trumpeted Cancer Moonshot campaign was launched just over a year ago with the goal of reducing cancer rates by more than 50 percent in the next 25 years. However, …

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 …