Drought, dried up prices, surly neighbors and a bundle of dynamite made for hard times in the early days of rice farming in parts of southwest Louisiana.
Analysis: Louisiana tax deal was about politics, not policy
By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press
On the surface, the latest unemployment figures for St. Mary Parish look good. Underneath that, the numbers are gloomy.
On the second floor of the old Whitney Bank building on Everett Street, Mel Simon was trying to figure out what was wrong.
It’s not even the Fourth of July, but political signs are beginning to pop up across south Louisiana in anticipation of this fall’s primary election.
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