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Lemme Tellya Bout Exports
Wallethub just came out with a list of the country’s worst state economies. Louisiana did not finish at the bottom of the list. That honor went to West Virginia — the state that usually
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Top 50 Locally Owned Businesses
The Boom Triumphant Slumping Oil Prices Weren’t A Serious Threat To The Far-Reaching Boom Of 2016 And Early 2017 By Brad Goins There were two big themes in the reports of this year’s Top
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Get Your Hat On
Think that Johnny Depp and Walter White are the only cool people to wear hats? Don’t you believe it. Back when he was young enough to be stylin’ it — in his college days
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Pierre Exits The Stage
A Reminiscence Of Russ Bordelon By Brad Goins For more than 30 years, Russ Bordelon was the voice of Pierre — the Cajun everyman who was the narrator of Russ’ Lagniappe magazine column titled
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WE LIKE MIKE
The Stories Of The Six Mike Mascots And The Louisiana Tigers Who Came Before Them By Brad Goins The LSU Tigers had been around half a century before fans got really serious about
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Ron Yule’s Big Book
Cajun Dancehall Heyday: A History of Traditional Cajun Music in the Lake Area of Southwest Louisiana and the Golden Triangle of Texas by Ron Yule. (2017, DeRidder, Fiddle Country Publishing, 365 pp.) Review By Brad
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Jindal Heavy
And you thought Jindalnomics was dead as a door nail. For one year, the Legislature managed to work with a Democratic governor to come up with a compromise budget fix. It wasn’t pretty. But
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Library Needs Historical Mementos
The Calcasieu Parish Central Library is still gathering materials from the public for the Pop-Up Museums commemorating Lake Charles’ 150th anniversary. Gather your historical photographs, documents, artifacts and what have you, and bring them
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Mr. Versatility, Jay Ecker
A Man Of Several Careers, Jay Ecker Finds That Versatility Is The Essence Of His Musical Life Story By Brad Goins Photos By Elizabeth Medwick Jay Ecker first learned to appreciate jazz music under
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The Villa
I rarely write about restaurants in Up Front. When I do, what I write is never a plug or a promotion. I can’t afford to go out on my own, so I only get
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