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  • Royal Alexander And The Louisiana Tea Party

    Remember Royal Alexander? For a short time, he was Chief of Staff to Congressman Rodney Alexander (no relation), and in 2007, he ran as the Republican candidate for Louisiana Attorney General, a race he lost handily to Buddy Caldwell, the Democratic candidate. Not surprisingly, Mr. Alexander is still engaged in politics, and it appears that he is attempting to assert himself as a leader of the Tea Party in Louisiana. Yesterday, Rachel Maddow reported that Senator David Vitter signed a pledge from the North Central Louisiana Tea Party that he would, among other things, conduct himself “personally and professionally in…

  • The Town Talk: Volume One

    Dale Genius, the Executive Director of the Louisiana History Museum in Downtown Alexandria, e-mailed me late this afternoon to announce the museum’s newest addition: a carefully-preserved, first edition copy of The Town Talk from the year of its creation, 1883. It may be hard to believe, but The Town Talk is one of the nation’s oldest, continuously operating newspapers, though, to be fair, The Hartford Courant, which is still in publication, has The Town Talk beat by over a century. As documented in the book The Talk of the Town, The Town Talk was considered an innovator in newspaper publication during…

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