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SWLA: NOW HIRING
With Spotty Application Filing, Some Local Businesses Are Coming Up Short Of Workers By Brad Goins Given the number of locals who’ve spent months staying at home during the COVID-19 quarantine, we’d expect to see at least a fairly significant
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It’s Still About The COVID
After all this time, most of the news (around here, anyway) still seems to be about COVID-19. To take one example, at this very time, lots of Louisianans can’t help but be thinking about
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Man’s Best Forecaster
Can Your Pet Tell You When A Storm Is Coming? By Brad Goins Many scientists have no problem asserting that some animals can tell when major weather events are going to occur. For instance,
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Toy Karma
Sulphur’s Thom Trahan Is A Historian And A Collector Par Excellence By Brad Goins From the moment I met Thom Trahan, his enthusiasm for pop culture was evident. Under his work shirt, Trahan wore a
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Is It Really All That Bad?
In a May 19 article, the Louisiana Budget Project made the bold statement that “Louisiana was less prepared for a recession than any other state in the nation before the COVID-19 pandemic.” The reasons
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We Like Big Boats and We Cannot Lie
Local Couples Cruise Big Boats On Area Waters — Sometimes For Months At A Time By Brad Goins Ben And Trisha Garber Whenever Lake Charles residents Ben and Trisha Garber head out for an
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KLLR Radio And PushVenue.com
Some time ago, Killer Websites owner Chad Moreno launched KLLR Radio as a streaming station that gives independent and unsigned artists a worldwide online platform for their music. It’s a free service that enables
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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
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Something Wild And Different
A Self-Proclaimed ‘Coonass’ Brings It To The Naked And Afraid TV Show On Discovery By Brad Goins Those who want to appear on the Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid program typically submit videos that show them exercising
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‘Infestation Without Representation’
So far, federal efforts to fight the coast-destroying nutria rodent have been isolated to Louisiana. A new bill, co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, would expand the effort to include all states
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