Editorial

The State Legislature has quickly passed bills promoting Educational Savings Accounts (ESA’s) out of both the Senate and House Education Committees, and the ESA bills are now headed for critical floor votes—and an all-out opposition from government educational bureaucracies. Are our Legislators adequately prepared for the rapidly approaching storm coming their way?

According to the newly released World Happiness Report which compiles data from Gallup and the United Nations, happiness rankings in the U.S. have plummeted, particularly among younger Americans.
The U.S. has fallen to No. 23 on the list of nations and is no longer in the top 20 happiest countries for the first time in history, and younger Americans are driving that decline. Among Americans under age 30, the U.S. falls to a bleak No. 62 in worldwide happiness rankings.

The mythical vampire could be stabbed repeatedly but always would rise from the dead.
The modern-day iteration of the vampire is the carbon tax, an idea that gets defeated repeatedly, yet some members of Congress continue trying to bring it back to life. Sadly, among those attempting the latest resurrection is one of my state’s senators, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who is sponsoring two pieces of legislation that would create a carbon offset scheme and a tax increase at the same time.