Opinion

By: Tuffy Fields The world has taken a crash course in world geography and especially the Mid- East. I still remember Mrs. Armstrong’s fourth grade geography class and learning all the continents, countries around the world, all the states and state capitals We were fortunate to have had teachers like that and the world of maps wetted the imagination and …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis The video of this year’s Kentucky Derby is still queued up in my computer’s tab bar every time I open Chrome. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve watched it. I’m hooked on the feeling I get with each viewing.  In case you aren’t a fan of the Triple Crown activities (and if you’ve …

By: Tuffy Fields Growing up in the rural deep south was a true treat. There was closeness within communities and enough love to overflow the cups of those that lived there. Every Sunday we attended Sunday school and church while Vacation Bible School was a special week of the year for the young children. I remember a stranger showing up …

By: Jim Brown Despite his conflict with President Trump, Pope Leo XIV is quite popular worldwide. There is talk of an American visit by the pontiff soon. He should come to Louisiana. More than half the population in South Louisiana is Catholic. There are over 500,000 Catholics in the greater New Orleans area alone. If the pope wanted to visit …

By; Tuffy Fields Last week we witnessed a very unique athletic event that provided assurance that perseverance and not giving up can eventually lead to victory. The event I am referring to was not a complete human endeavor but a partnership between a human equine event. A horse was allowed to enter the Kentucky Derby race; one of the top …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis One of my classmates at our 56-year Farmerville High School reunion asked me, “Are you going to write about this in your column?”  “You know I’ll have to,” I said. “But I don’t know what I’m going to say yet.”  Truth is: I still don’t know. All the scenes, the sounds, the conversations are swirling in …

By: Tuffy Fields Last week members of the United States Whitehouse press corps, guests and members of the elected national government and the president’s cabinet came together for a rare sit-down evening of fellowship at the Whitehouse Press Corps Dinner. From the outside looking in it appeared that the dinner may provide an opportunity for some olive branches to be …

By: Jim Brown Say it isn’t so. The Bayou State, made up of docile souls who are law abiding, courteous and well-trained motorists, has just been tagged by several rating services as having the worst drivers in the nation. Look, the folks down here in the deepest of the deep Southern states do get a little rowdy now and then. …

By: Glynn Harris I’m not a technologically- adept person. That’s why I called my friend and computer expert, Rex Moncrief last week to come help me set up my new phone.  Rex came, got my phone up and running and as he left, he mentioned he was headed home to Bossier City, pick up his boat and meet his friend, …

By: Tuffy Fields The War in Ukraine: Casualties, Futility, and Russia’s Destructive Path  America is in a war in Iran and as we try to come to grips with an the intricacies of the conflict the world has pivoted from a war that has even more potential for communist dominance than anything we are witnessing in the mid-East. It is …