A heroic daughter and a bale of cotton saved her father’s life when the steamboat Lessie Taylor sank just after leaving the busy St. Landry port at Washington on Feb. 3, 1878.
“Drive Faster. The Mountains are close by."
That’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen on a number of cars throughout western North Carolina.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced plans to call the Legislature into a special session in November, the third this year, to reform the state’s tax system.
Public service commissioner isn’t the sexiest job in terms of public profile, but there are only five such seats in the state, so when a vacancy occurs, Louisiana’s political world takes notice. <
Some of you older readers may recall the name of South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park, a flamboyant international lobbyist who died this past week.
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