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Nothing like Louisiana politics
The old story goes that in the early 1970s Louisiana sold some used voting machines to Matamoras, Mexico. They were used for the first time in a local election in Mexico several months later, and ...
Jan 23, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 41 41 recommendations | email to a friend
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Did Ada and doc meet in heaven?
When James LeBoeuf, Morgan City's power plant superintendent, disappeared on Friday night, July 1, 1927, his wife, Ada, said he'd probably gone to Lafayette. She didn't report his disappearance to...
Jan 16, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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The soldiers kept coming back
Nothing is left where the farmhouse of Louis Francois Desire Arnaud and his wife Sarah Burleigh Arnaud stood in the middle 1800s near Grand Coteau. It was a nice house, well situated. Their big far...
Jan 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Caffery was leading diplomat
As the new year began nearly 60 years ago, Americans were not very popular in the Middle East. The question of what to do with displaced Palestinians was very much in the news and the American stan...
Jan 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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A New Year’s retrospective
Over the half century that I have been writing about Acadiana, I’ve driven down practically every road in south Louisiana, visited (or at least passed through) every named community, and met and b...
Dec 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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The story of a Christmas foundling
The letter to the Lafayette Advertiser published on February 16, 1901, was headlined, "A History Veiled in a Mystery - A Young Man Seeking His Unknown Mother." The letter told the story of an i...
Dec 12, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chachere royalty?
We're pretty sure that Louis Chachere arrived at the Poste des Opelousas at least by 1790, because on November 25 of that year he signed a legal document saying so. The document also said that he c...
Dec 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deficit reduction
Another deficit reduction commission has now made its recommendations. My own recommendation for dealing with deficits would include stopping the appointment of deficit reduction commissions. It i...
Nov 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Old Man
From a friend of mine on the Internet came the following which I thought you might appreciate. I ran it before but in light of Veteran’s Day just past, I am running it again. “As I came out of the ...
Nov 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rayne boasted first radio station
Today, the call letters WBKB are assigned to the CBS television affiliate in the Alpena area of northern Michigan, but for a short time in 1930 they belonged to the first radio station to broadcast...
Nov 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Political judges
Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with “public servants” who act as if they are public masters. This went beyond the usual objections to particular...
Nov 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stimulus payments
Just in case you, like me, don’t really know what the Economic Stimulus Program is all about, I am about to enlighten you. President Obama and his Cabinet, all eight percent of them who have been i...
Nov 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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