With all the excitement and hoopla over the Saints’ Super Bowl win Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts, the election of Mitch Landrieu as Mayor of the City of New Orleans came off as a low key event.
It’s hard to escape Super Bowl fever in South Louisiana this year. The New Orleans Saints are in the game, something most Bayou State residents thought might never happen in their lifetime.
When we bid farewell Dec. 31 to the cruel, major events of the new millennium, from 9/11 to the recession to global warming and eight years of war, we might have figured the damned decade would retreat a bit, cut some slack, and allow time for us to catch our breath, smell the roses, enjoy the beauty of life.
If you’ve never been to Louisiana, sucked a crawfish head, booed for the Saints, cheered for the bums and cried like a baby when they choked yet another game, we’ll forgive you.
While many are breathing a sigh of relief that we are in the midst of somewhat of a downturn in the H1N1 flu pandemic, it is important to remember that these viruses are notoriously unpredictable.
An authorized biography of Edwin Edwards, the imprisoned and disgraced former governor of Louisiana, is selling like hotcakes in bookstores around the state.
The news that a high profile company is leaving the Baton Rouge area for a more erudite location in North Carolina, home of the Research Triangle, stings, but is hardly what we would call a surprise.
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