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I was lying in bed last night annoyed with my wife, Shelby. It wasn’t anything serious, just differences about how we tidy up before bed.

TheLouisianaDepartment of Health is announcing a new partnership with Feeding Louisiana to administer the Louisiana Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CFSP). Effective July 1, Feeding Louisiana will assume these responsibilities from Catholic Charities, the CFSP provider since 1986.

Observations By Laura Arvin I am in need of some hope this week. I witnessed Louisiana legislators pass bills, some of which make life harder for the most vulnerable.

Last week my sweet parents treated me to a guided fishing trip. It’s not something I normally do, but the change of pace was great.

Several bills were headed to Gov. Jeff Landry’s desk for signature after adjournment Monday of the Louisiana Legislature’s 2024 regular session.

DEAR EDITORS: I was raised as a newspaper reader. My dad would daily scour the Times-Picayune, cover to cover, devouring each detail.

(Using) My Voice By Cassie Condrey I go to the Presbyterian church in town. I was raised there, sitting with my parents next to my mother’s father and just behind my father’s mother.

I went to a wedding this weekend of a friend of mine. A fairly small intimate ordeal with great food and a beautiful venue. Shelby and I and all our friends danced the night away as we celebrated our friends’ love. (And paid the price for it in the morning.) I strolled by their guest book towards the end of the night and stopped to think about something appropriate to write down. I tend to try and be funny with these types of things, but instead what came to me was the words, “A sunset is only beautiful if you notice it.”

There are many people who have proposed solutions to crime in Louisiana, but there’s an important voice being left out of the conversation around public safety: Public defenders. The solutions to crime almost always seem to stem from the idea of locking up as many people as possible — and disproportionately, those people are Black and Brown.

DEAR EDITORS: I have been so heartbroken after reading the East Carroll issue this week about your coworker, Billy Coleman. Even with all of the empty spaces on your pages, it spoke volumes to me of who Billy was to you, Cassie, your other coworkers and Billy's community.