In my early years in Arabia I was fortunate to have been associated with workers from around the world.  These workers comprised an amalgamation of color, religion, national pride, education and a myriad of other norms that makes up our world.  One aspect of this is that no two countries is the same and it is only right that we …

By Luke BrittEditor For months Police Jury Secretary-Treasurer Paula Strickland has been trying to get the Union Parish Police Jury to adopt a new policy governing how the parish handles public records requests, and once again, at their monthly meeting on Tuesday, the jury tabled the issue, this time without so much as a syllable of explanation. The reason, I …

By Luke BrittEditor The Union Parish Detention Center’s $3 million-a-year inmate work release program has been under audit since September when the Department of Corrections discovered that the balances in a number of inmate accounts did not match the balances recorded in the detention center’s accounting software. The DOC’s Chief Auditor, Jewell Freeman, confirmed on Wednesday that no inmate funds …