IN LOUISIANA OIL SPILL DID STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES DROP THE BALL? It didn’t take long for the blame game to begin shortly after the tragic Gulf oil explosion. State and Federal officials were in lock step in declaring that British Petroleum (BP), who had leased the gulf oil track from the federal government, was...Read More

Thursday, May 6th 2010 Venice, Louisiana IN LOUISIANA OIL SPILL DID STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES DROP THE BALL? It didn’t take long for the blame game to begin shortly after the tragic Gulf oil explosion.  State and Federal officials were in lock step in declaring that British Petroleum (BP), who had leased the gulf oil...Read More

A delightful, older couple, Marlo and Frances Cowan, traveled to the Mayo Clinic to have a check up, and had some time to kill.  There was a piano in the atrium of the clinic, so they stopped for a bit to play.  The have become an overnight sensation on Youtube.  Maybe I’m just getting older,...Read More

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has taken some roosting and hits from some skeptics on the national level for his all out call for federal help to deal with the present oil spill crisis.  They say that Jindal is being inconsistent and “two faced” in opposing many federal programs, including the stimulus package, while now asking...Read More

My second home has been, for many years, Linville, North Carolina, high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the Tar Heel state’s northwest corner.  I ski in the winter, hike watch the leaves change in the fall, then golf and take in bluegrass music in the summer.  Maybe some fly fishing in the spring.  And...Read More