Hosting Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans generated a state- wide economic impact of $1.25 billion, more than double the impact of the city’s last Super Bowl in 2013 and one of the larg- est in NFL history. That’s according to a new economic analysis released by Lou- isiana State University’s E.J. Ourso College of Business, which evaluated the event’s …

(Following is a chapter in my new book, “Fa- thers, Sons and Old Guns”. The book, containing 50 of the columns I have written over the years is available from Amazon.com) I met the old fellow once way back in the woods as he ground his pick-up to a rattling halt and stopped to chat when he noticed me walking …

Last week a very disturbing incident took place that discloses the rise in man’s hatred for man for no reason other than religion. Two members of the Israeli dip- lomatic mission in Washington were visiting the Jew- ish Museum when an assassin walked up and shot the couple dead. The man had recently bought an engagement ring and had planned …