President Barack Obama. (Associated Press)
By Jim Beam / American Press
The people who work for President Obama in the White House would benefit if they got the same job survival advice I received
some years ago from one of our publishers.
“Jim, I don’t need to know about everything you fellows are putting in the paper. But if you are running something tha ...
By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
It's rainy, breezy and 46 degrees as I write this here in the Pacific Northwest. But that's not the craziest weather news of the day.
About three hours away, snow led to classes being canceled.
My sources tell me this is not happening in Lake Charles and the surrounding area.
By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
It's not unusual for the aisles in grocery stores to be festooned with odds and ends, such as chip clips on the chips aisle, or fancy fizz-saving bottle caps on the soda aisle, just hanging there in some smartly placed mini-display.
But imagine my surprise — and then my smile — today af ...
By Jim Beam / American Press
The Louisiana Senate and others didn't take long to start trashing the $24.7 billion state budget put together by a rare coalition of House Republicans and Democrats. A history-making streak of independence by at least one branch of the Legislature is now being maligned by those who apparently love ...
By Jim Beam / American Press
The air bag didn’t deploy, but the seat belt held. That fact, in addition to driving a heavy automobile, may have saved my
life.
It was raining when I left the state
Capitol about 4:30 p.m. Friday, heading west for home on Interstate 10
after covering
an historic week at the Legislature. ...
By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
There are a lot of people who would agree with the headline on this CBSSports.com piece.
Jerry Hinnen's blog post just happened to come across my desk and computer screen today during work, and I figured there might be a few of you who would get a kick out of it.
I walked into and out of that tunn ...
By Jim Beam / American Press
BATON ROUGE — The state House of Representatives made legislative history last week by writing a budget to its liking. It
was a rare streak of legislative independence, and that is what the nitpicking, perennial critics have overlooked.
Since the days of Huey P. Long, the legislative b ...
By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
Take a look here: http://images.ftw.usatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/elbow.gif
Ouch
By Jim Beam / American Press
BATON ROUGE — The House of Representatives is as close this week as it has been in years to fixing the budget-writing process.
However, it’s almost impossible to find reasonable public officials on all sides of the issue who are willing to engage in
some give-and-take.
The legislative ...
By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
Not me.
I don't always drink drool, but when I do, I prefer Moose Drool.
It also reminds me of a memorable trip I made a long time ago to cover a McNeese football game in Missoula, Mont., where Moose Drool is made. It also reminds me of a reporter who worked for me in Oregon — not because sh ...
By Carl Dubois / Special to the American Press
Technology is a wonderful thing. For one, it allows me to keep up with my nephew, Gill Landry, as he travels the earth with Old Crow Medicine Show.
Here is video from Wednesday's performance at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles:
Old Crow Medicine Show was on "Conan" Monday night. Here is the performan ...
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