Guest columnists

December 7, 2016

A Louisiana-Dakota connection

The distance between Louisiana and South Dakota is many miles, far more than a thousand. But in years the problems between the Sioux and related people […]
December 13, 2016

A humble souvenir

The administration of President Barack Obama is coming to a close. History was made on several big counts with his election, on two separate occasions. The […]
December 21, 2016

Laura’s book

These parts we live in are among those where 40 years on the same spit of land won’t make you near a native, so far as […]
December 28, 2016

What’s in a name?

One of the more difficult adjustments I had to make decades ago when first coming to work in these parts was the proliferation of identical names […]