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The 14th annual event will recognize past winners and feature them battling head-to-head at the Cajundome Convention Center on June 22.

Get our free mobile app Being a great chef takes patience, culinary talent, and lots of experience.  Being a great seafood chef in Louisiana takes even more than that!  The food in our state is a great source of pride, and it should be - its  so freaking good!  So, when you happen to run across a cooking competition in the Sportsmans Paradise, you know youre in for some delicious groceries! Thats been the case for the entire run of the the world-famous Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off.  For 14...

Cuts in ‘abuse and waste’, admission of past wrongful public spending By Robert Vasquez There are signs that public spending cuts are being made, despite the promise of no austerity. These cuts arrive with the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s confession that the Covid-19 pandemic has devastated our economy. Based on his May Day message, one is led to believe that any public spending cuts will be made to stop ‘abuse and waste’, and will not amount to his idea of what austerity is. But i...

Arvin man arrested for hit-and-run crash at The Bank By Doug Keeler (dkeeler@taftmidwaydriller.com Taft Midway Driller An Arvin man was arrested on drunk driving, hit-and-run and a weapons charge after his Jeep crashed into The Bank at Fifth and North Saturday evening. The crash took place at 8:25 pm. Saturday and caused "significant damage" to the building, Taft Police said. Officers said the suspect was driving on North Street attempting to turn south onto Fifth when his Jeep Cherokee jump...

My New Orleans Travel Resolutions While 2020 could be dubbed the year of the staycation for reasons we look forward to forgetting, at Louisiana Life, we always relish being a tourist in our town, and the next one over and way up there and down yonder. So let’s continue the staycation vibes in 2021 and resolve to visit every corner of the Pelican State. 12/31/2020 Forget those diet resolutions.  When do those 10 pounds ever come off? Especially with Carnival following the holidays. Instead...

Let us stay British after final Brexit by Robert Vasquez All nations that enter into treaties mutually give up small elements of sovereignty, jurisdiction and control to the degree agreed in those arrangements. All nations who belong to the EU, EFTA and/or Schengen have given each other aspects of sovereignty, jurisdiction and control within the limits defined in the treaties creating those organisations. An important consideration in treaties is that any aspect of shared responsibility should ...

Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – A former Santa Fe Police Department lieutenant contends in a lawsuit that she was forced into retirement after repeatedly being retaliated against by the city of Santa Fe because she reported time card fraud and evidence room violations to supervisors. Michele Williams, who retired late last year, filed a lawsuit Dec. 11 against the city of Santa Fe and Mayor Alan Webber. She accuses the city of violating the Whistleblower Protection Act by dem...

Dealing with corruption By Robert Vasquez Two matters have hit the news in the Cayman Islands and in England and Wales that need attention, which would go some way to improve the ‘peace, order and good government of Gibraltar’. The first is the proposal to reform corruption laws in England and Wales. The second is an update of the Cayman Constitution, which includes an independent Commission for Standards in Public Life and an independent Public Accounts Committee. However, pointedly, in G...

>> the department of justice will be starting in investigation into certain aspects of the work of the newark police department. >> gary mccarthy was handpicked by merrill rahm emanuel. now the department he leaves behind the center investigation. the aclus sites 407 examples of police misconduct against the department macarthy has run since 2006. >> a lot of the systems were not in place when i got there. >> complains the incoming police superintendent raised himself when he was intro...