Thomas FieldsThomas “Tuffy” Fields is an author and regular contributor to The Gazette. He can be reached by email at thelouisianaexplorer@yahoo.com. Many years ago I left the tranquility of Union Parish and spent my summer as a Committee Clerk of the Retirement Committee at the state capital in Baton Rouge. This was during the regular session of the Louisiana Legislature. …

Jim BrownJim Brown is a former Louisiana state senator, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Insurance and a regular contributor to The Gazette. All the winter shenanigans around us this past month are pointing to a New Ice Age in my life.Yes, I’m ready to forget the longstanding advice of hunkering down with firewood, canned soup and thermal socks, and instead …

GSU art professor to speak in Union Museum Feb. 8Grambling State University art professor Rodrecas Davis will discuss the life and art of Clementine Hunter on Saturday, February 8, at 11 a.m. in the Union Museum of History and Art. A display of 50 original Hunter artworks will be on display in the museum at that time. The talk is …