September 2022 Archive

EPA sued for failing to regulate hundreds of coal ash dumps
By Sue Sturgis Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — Environmental, civil rights, and community groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Michael Regan for exempting hundreds of toxic ...
Telecom giant moves to stop federal broadband grant for northeast Louisiana
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Frustrated residents from rural northeast Louisiana descended on Baton Rouge on September 1 after their local internet provider filed a formal protest to prevent federal ...
New Orleans artist John T. Scott’s story lives on at new center
By Kelly Harris DeBerry Contributing Writer (Special from Verite News) — The legacy of the late New Orleans visual artist John T. Scott will be passed on for generations to come at ...
Audit: Fuel-efficient vehicles suck tax revenue from Louisiana roadwork fund
By Greg LaRose Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — A combination of increasingly efficient vehicles and a fuel tax that has not increased since 1990 has gradually depleted a key fund Louisiana uses to ...
Thirteen states set to tax student loan forgiveness
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — According to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, as many as 13 states will consider President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness a taxable ...
Sen. John N. Kennedy is asking you to re-elect him
Part I On November 8, 2022, incumbent U.S. Senator John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) hopes you will send him back to Washington, D.C., for a second six-year term. Kennedy comes across as ...
Biden student debt forgiveness plan begins, not ends
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Columnist President Joe Biden’s recent student debt cancellation announcement elicited a diverse range of reactions – some congratulatory, others critical, and still others that seem unsure what to ...
Moon over Monarchy
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer It’s odd to consider that the British monarch, who oversaw a retreat from empire, stood as one of the great civil rights figures of the past 70 ...
Two decades later 9/11 conspiracy theories still alive and well
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist You can bet on it. The “it” is that on the twenty-first anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks the conspiracy theorists will again come out ...
What’s goin’ on now?
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Throughout history, humankind has been blessed with prophets whose wisdom, insight, and predictions have provided others with a pathway to prosperity. Unfortunate-ly, as ...

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