Columns

Davis, Pelicans impasse may not end no matter what

The strain between the New Orleans Pelicans and their star player, Anthony Davis, does not seem to be getting any better any time soon.

The Marks Post: Making a difference

From back-to-back days in Sulphur for the softball state tournament to taking a foul ball off the stomach and from a baseball playoff game in Oberlin on Monday to taking pictures of Passe Partout at Chicot Park on Tuesday, it has been a long couple of days.

West's World: Honoring the Fourth Estate

Nearly four years in this business has brought me an undeniable appreciation for media and the valuable role it plays in a community.

Rams silenced by the NFL’s version of Hannibal Lector

Gris-Gris. Voodoo. Black Magic. Most New Orleans Saints fans will say this is the reason why the Los Angeles Rams choked in the biggest game of their lives when they fell 13-3 to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.

The Marks Post: Bourbon, beads, and football

For the first time in 12 years, the New Orleans Saints host the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs. I was there the last time both teams matched up against each other in the postseason in 2007, but the story of how I got there begins about a year or so before then.

Public Notices Threatened

Print newspapers are still the primary way that tens of millions of Americans receive information about their communities and the world. They are also the way that many people find out about job opportunities.

West’s World: Support Democracy, subscribe

Former Ville Platte Gazette editor, Paul Kedinger, once described a community’s newspaper as “history-in-the-making.” He said it was “a recorder of the present, a critical examiner of the past, and a trained eye on the future.”

The Marks Post: Swish responsibly

Americans went to the polls Tuesday, and I had a first hand view of this part of the democratic process as I was once again working as an election commissioner at the Lincoln Road Fire Station.

The Marks Post: Finding God in live television

It probably is no secret from reading several of my past columns that I have been going to silent Jesuit retreats in Grand Coteau for the past several years.

The Marks Post: Just around the corner

If there is anything that I have learned over my 15 months here at The Ville Platte Gazette, it is that the best columns allow the readers to get a glimpse into the lives of the writer to get to know the person better.