Regional Reports from across the state

a guide to festivals around the state july-august 2011

Mr. Mulate’s

This Plaquemines Parish home goes global.

For those who are ragin’ for a poor boy

Nurse-Led Clinic Opens in Cenla PINEVILLE – Central Louisiana residents now have another option for medical care. Louisiana College’s Loving Care: Nurse-Led Clinic opened in May and serves LC faculty and area residents. The goal of the clinic, located next…

Business news from around the state

I once gave a friend a few quotes for a parenting article she was doing for a women’s magazine. Because the magazine discouraged its writers from interviewing other writers as its “real parents,” she described me as “a farmer’s wife.”…

When your great uncle was known as “Blind Willie” and when the tools of his trade, which are still in use, are 107 years old, you have to figure there is a story there. And there is.Baton Rouge resident Lionel…

Traveling Louisiana

Our annual survey of some of the states best products

LSU’s dental school makes its mark.

After a devastating year caused by the oil disaster, tourist hot spots along the Gulf Coast want folks to know that they’re back. (In fact they never left; the perception scared people away, never the reality.)GULFPORT, MISS.If you want to…

The Official State Dog

Clinton winemaker is growing a business.

Reliable Marker for Alzheimer’sBaton Rouge – Researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge recently released a study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease identifying a particularly reliable marker for identifying early stages of dementia: the inability to…