Commentary

One night a gang of us girls were sitting around in a dormitory room on the campus of Pearl River Junior College talking. This wasn’t uncommon, since our nightly curfew was 9 p.m. (when the library closed) There had been recent murders on small Southern college campuses and the newest information was that a dorm that began with a “C” would be the next campus targeted by the killer

Sometimes I really question myself. Seems like I am getting forgetful as time passes. Overload? Possibly.Hubby-dear and I have been involved in a play, which was presented at First United Methodist Church last weekend. Nightly rehearsals—sometimes eating a quick burger in the Family Life Center—have become a way of life.

 

 

The issue on La. State Police Mike Edmonson getting a sneaky $55,000 annual boost for the rest of his life in his retirement

certainly smells. This matter will get swept under the carpet unless voters speak out. A meeting of the La. State Police

Retirement System Board was to be held this past week into how this actually happened- how it got sneaked past the legislature 

 

By John Kennedy, State Treasurer

 

The state of Louisiana has “Obamacared” its own employees’ health insurance plan. Here’s how. One of the problems with the federal Affordable Care Act (called “Obamacare” by the President himself) is the way it’s paid for: with $700 billion of taxpayer money taken from Medicare. Many Louisiana officials, myself included, have criticized this. That’s why it’s so disappointing and more than a little ironic that the state has done the same thing to its own State Group Benefits (SGB) health insurance plan for 230,000 active and retired state employees, their spouses and children.