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A dog hating, church-goer with a cold
To say this week has been one of the stranger ones I’ve experienced during my six years is....well, for lack of a lesser used word, an understatement. To begin with Easter Sunday was very nice. I k...
Apr 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo A. Nickel
Who’s on first?
There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (...
Oct 27, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo A. Nickel
Romney vs Obama
Compare the free enterprise system with socialism. Capitalism, the free enterprise system and individual initiative made this country the greatest in the world where thousands, no millions strive t...
Oct 27, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo A. Nickel - The MAN Column
Professional engineer to his employees
A friend of mine sent the following letter to me from a professional engineer reportedly written to his employees. It is rather lengthy but I believe it expresses the views of every business ...
Aug 23, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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It ain't about bunnies, eggs or barbecues
Happy Easter Acadia Parish! It seems I say this every year but it bears repeating that today isn’t about rabbits, eggs, candy or barbecues. Today marks the date that Christians around the world ce...
Apr 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
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The lesson every father should teach
When I was around 13-years-old, the most popular video game in the history of the world at that time was called Asteroids (showing my age, right?). My parents would drop my buddies and me off at th...
Feb 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 116 116 recommendations | email to a friend
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The toughest person I've ever interviewed
I remember taking a picture of Chyna Young at Crowley High School back when I was doing the Teen Scene periodical we put out about three years ago. To begin with I recalled (and not in a bad way – ...
Jan 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo A. Nickel
Black Farmers
From the Internet, “Pigford vs. Glickman” “In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to ra...
Aug 21, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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Generosity took a blow in Crowley last week
They say you can't judge a book by it's cover. I learned a little something about that this week when I was asked to write a story about Tracy Gray, a man with a medical condition (I think it was ...
Aug 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 73 73 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gold Medal Syrup took the prize
Alexandre Mouton, grandson of the governor and nephew of the general, made the best cane syrup in the world. At least that's what the judges at the St. Louis World's Fair said in 1903. They gave it...
Jun 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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Brits made sneaky survey of Cajun coast
Even though Spanish adventurers sailed through the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Mexico beginning in the 1500s, the coastline of Louisiana was mostly uncharted until more than two centuries later,...
Feb 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 58 58 recommendations | email to a friend
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Health care reform winners and losers
By Mike Reitz President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana This year’s mid-term elections produced a new set of winners and losers, and with the dramatic shift in power that occurred...
Nov 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 214 214 recommendations | email to a friend
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