One third, and possibly more, of the Police Jury will be new in the coming year. New faces could help, but new ideas are what will make the changes that we need. Those changes include, of course, more and higher paying local jobs, increased availability of local healthcare services, among which would be at least two ambulance stations.

I really did not think I would be spending so much Booster ink on the sheriff’s race this year, but there is so much low hanging fruit here and the streak of sarcasm running through me is so wide I cannot resist. Mr. Evans is greatly exercised over the purchase of the Sheriff Department’s new headquarters building in Harrisonburg and has expressed his reservations over Sheriff Edwards’ real estate acumen. But in all this drama about the Catahoula Parish Sheriff’s Office moving out of the aging courthouse in Harrisonburg, we seem to be overlooking a very important question: Does Jerel Evans know how to be a sheriff? He’s never even been a deputy. After all, we’re trying to elect the best sheriff, not the best real estate agent.

Most of the liberal “blue” states in America have had no real issue with the Biden Administration's “open borders” policy. In fact, it has been considered 'racist' and 'bigoted' to want to place any limitations on who could steal their way into our country.

Corn: Corn prices fell $0.01-$0.02/bushel this morning as December 2023 futures – trading just shy of $4.70/bushel at last glance – continued to hover at a three-year low during the overnight trading session. Harvest pressure in the U.S. continues to weigh heavily on corn prices as farmers begin to ramp up combining activities to haul in the second-largest U.S. corn crop in history.