A 50-year water sale agreement negotiated between the SRA-LA and a private limited partnership – Toledo Bend Partners L.P. is being considered for approval by the SRA-LA Board of Commissioners on January 26, 2012. All indications are that the Commissioners vote will result in approval of the...
My comment is for all congressmen regardless of party. The first thing you need to do is repay ALL of the funds you have removed from the Social Security Trust Fund (with interest) which you had converted into the general budget (remember, they put the union bosses in jail for doing the exact...
(Editor’s note: The following is a letter sent to us by Mayor Ken Freeman, who was sincerely touched by the local church wanting to do something good for the staff at City Hall.)
Dear Mr. Freeman,
I hope and pray that your holiday season has and will be filled with hope, joy and...
The story you had in the INDEX today regarding ANGRY BUSINESSES CONFRONT SRA are asking the SRA board to do what we have been trying to get them to do for years.
Dear editor:
Since my husband and I moved to Toledo Bend eleven years ago I have read The Index, but never before have I written a Letter to the Editor. I am doing so now in support of the library tax renewal which is on the Oct. 22 ballot. This tax renewal proposition will continue the...
Citizens of Sabine Parish need to realize what they are liable to lose if the next effort to pass a library maintenance tax fails. Back in the 1930s when the the state initiated the plan to put public libraries in all 64 parishes; Sabine Parish was one of the first to take advantage of the...
Last week we noticed in the “letters” column of the Index, a citizen (comrade) who promotes the Marxist Socialist ideology of taxing the super rich in America. He also casually mentions taking everything they make wouldn’t pay off the debt.
Regular Index readers know I (and my dog Smiley) are big fan’s of Mr. Pete Abington’s column in the Index, and I usually agree with Mr. Abington’s viewpoint. He had lambasted politicians left and right - hit ‘em again buddy!
“...It is not individual prosperity, but the general good that makes cities great. Let republics, then, be established where equality exists, and, on the contrary, principalities where great inequality prevails...” - Machiavelli.
