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Burgess Owens, Thomas Pressly, Mary Szoch, Sam Brownback, Dr. Mark Moyar
On today’s program: Burgess Owens, U.S. Representative for Utah’s 4th District, discusses the latest on the Reagan National Airport crash investigation and his Educational Choice for Children Act. Thomas Pressly, Louisiana State Senator, gives an update on the arrest warrant issued for a New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pills.
Andy Biggs, Ran Kivets, Thomas Pressly, Dr. George Barna
On today’s program: Andy Biggs, U.S. Representative for the 5th District of Arizona, explains the domestic security threat created by the Biden administration’s border crisis and shares about the effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. Ran Kivets, Professor at Columbia University Business School, explains his research that details how Hamas terrorists are responsible for the lack of aid reaching civilians in Gaza.
Letters: River pilots' monopolies are bad policy and bad for business
If I were to draft new legislation that created not one, but several, geographic monopolies with the exclusive right to control the movement of all ships at ports on the lower Mississippi River, that would probably raise eyebrows. It would raise more red flags if this hypothetical bill mandated every vessel use these monopolies’ services.
Letters: Time for reforms to insider boards controlling high-priced river pilot jobs
Louisiana’s need to reform the “good ol' boy” system came to light again in news reports over political appointments between members of two politically connected families vying for a position on a powerful yet little-known board. The infighting arose over the governor’s appointment to the Board of Examiners of the New Orleans Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots, the board that determines who gets a state commission, or license to pilot ships between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Louisiana Tops Another List
Tourism and oil – our top revenue producers – are hit the hardest COVID-19 has created many challenges. From health care to education, and business to government, every sector of our world has been affected by this crisis. As we begin to move from focusing on the health crisis to the economic calamity, the challenge does not grow easier. Louisiana’s constitution rightfully requires that the state maintain a balanced budget each fiscal year.
Pressly: Census 2020 will be vital to state's representation, receiving federal funds
Thomas Pressly, Special to The Times Published 9:00 a.m. CT Nov. 29, 2019 An accurate count during the 2020 census will be vital to the future of our state, and particularly the Shreveport-Bossier area. The census has gathered demographic information regarding the citizens of the United States every 10 years since the first census was taken in 1790.
Eyewitness to Terror: The Lynching of a Black Man in Obion County, Tennessee in 1931
In 1931 twelve-year- old Thomas J. Pressly witnessed the lynching of George Smith in Union City, the county seat of Obion County, Tennessee. Now a University of Washington historian and Professor Emeritus, Dr. Pressley describes that lynching in the article below. When I was twelve years old, I saw the body of a young black man hanging from the limb of a tree where he had been hung several hours earlier.
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