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UV Light As A Method Of Sanitization By Kerri Cooke The current global pandemic has put extra emphasis on how to keep public areas hygienic to reduce the spread of disease. There’s one decontamination
Read More »Louisiana Extends Usage of Cannibas
By Kerri Cooke Is coronavirus anxiety keeping you from functioning? Louisiana just passed a bill into law that will allow doctors to begin prescribing medical marijuana in August for conditions besides just cancer, seizures,
Read More »Interracial Adoption
Raising A Black Child In A White Family In 2020 By Kerri Cooke On the popular app TikTok, 18-year-old Cameron Welch describes the unspoken rules that have been instilled in him growing up in
Read More »The Daze of the Lockdown
Lagniappe’s three lead writers report on their experiences during the lockdown. CORONAVIRUS NOTEBOOK By Brad Goins Until mid-March, I’d followed the coronavirus story in a curious, and entirely casual, manner. I felt no
Read More »In China During The COVID-19 Outbreak
Southwest Louisiana Native Speaks From Experience By Kerri Cooke I first met Vickie Peoples five years ago when we were co-workers in Lake Charles. Three years ago she made the decision to go back to
Read More »Stay Hydrated, My Friends
Making An Idea Reality: Joseph Tucker And Hydra-Guard Technologies Story By Kerri Cooke ~ Photos By Marlow Mungia In his TEDxLSU talk in 2016 Joseph Tucker said, “As an entrepreneur and inventor, my job is
Read More »Mural Man: Jeremy Price
One Artist’s Quest For Beauty, Fulfillment And Opportunity Story By Kerri Cooke • Photos by Chris Brennan You might not know the name Jeremy Price, but I’d be willing to bet you have noticed his
Read More »Elvis Martinez – Part Two
Part Two Of A Story Of Second Chances And A Better Life By Kerri Cooke Elvis Martinez had been a child laborer and a fearless migrant in the face of what would have traumatized and even
Read More »Elvis Martinez
A Story Of Second Chances And A Better Life By Kerri Cooke When people ask Elvis Martinez his name, often he has to take out his license to prove he is not joking. How many
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