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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 –...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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 occurr...
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Independence Day - 2010
On Sunday, the United States of America will once again commemorate the 4th of July, or Independence Day, and the country will celebrate its 234th birthday. This date acknowledges the signing of th...
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