Edition Button
Natchitoches Times Logo
Infinite Menus, Copyright 2006, OpenCube Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Editorials
Running on Empty
“I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on Running on-running on empty Running on-running blind Running on-running into the sun But I’m running behind. “ Those lyrics from Jackso...
Aug 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor: I would like to make anyone who handles money aware of counterfeit money being spread in Natchitoches. Make sure you check all currency close. I own and operate Smith Garage. I handle ...
Aug 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Edwin Edwards, “Who’s he?”
Since none of my publishers bought me a ticket to attend the gala roast of former Gov. Edwin Edwards in the French Quarter last Saturday, my next best option, following his pre-event press conferen...
Aug 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Vitter pressing GOP advantage
The nation’s debt crisis would be waiting when he flew back to Washington on Monday afternoon, but Sen. David Vitter’s day started with state politics, over breakfast in a Baton Rouge diner, review...
Jul 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Dog Days of Summer
It’s hot, very hot. Football is too far away. Congress is acting like an unsupervised asylum. Candidates are beginning to crawl out of the woodwork for the state elections this fall, which means ou...
Jul 27, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Republican Rebranding and the Great Ceiling Debate
Apart from being the first time that partisanship swirling around the raising of the debt limit ceiling threatens to shove the United States into an economic abyss, the Great Debt Ceiling Debate of...
Jul 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
It was a cat, a really big cat
In the early fall of 1948 momma wanted Black Walnuts for a cake. Even then, the truism held, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” I guess momma concluded if her eldest son, Billy Wayne, cou...
Jul 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Obesity levels too high; focus need to lower them
Louisiana’s adult obesity rate is the fifth highest in the nation according to a new report from the Trust for America’s Health, and that continues to erode the quality of life for a high percentag...
Jul 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Brutally hot weather prompts action by PSC
It has been a brutally hot late spring and summer in this area, which underscores the importance of a policy enacted by the state Public Service Commission prohibiting utility companies from cuttin...
Jul 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story
Election is about the next one
Democrats were heartened some this week by news that state Sen. Rob Marionneaux of Livonia is mulling over getting into the governor’s race. A veteran lawmaker now term-limited, Marionneaux ...
Jul 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
full story