News opinion 2008-07-27 Andanh.com

Road belongs to cyclists, too Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
Maurice Loridans: I am a lawyer who commutes by bicycle. I have seen a huge uplift in interest in transportation by bike since fuel prices soared this year.

Drilling will include inconvenience Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:50:00 EST
Letter writer: "Certainly a few of you will get some royalties from the drilling but most of you will only experience what we have experienced here in the Fort Worth area — endless aggravation, noise and extremely heavy truck traffic."

Guide spotlights area attractions, upcoming events Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:47:00 EST
Wendy Benscoter: Just two months ago, ShreveportBossierFunGuide.com, the community's new event and attraction calendar Web site was launched. We invite everyone, especially those who come in contact with tourists, to please check out this Web site to see just how easy it now is to find what there is to do and see in our area.

Bottom line: Math needed for future economy Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:40:00 EST
Editorial: More students knowing more about math adds up to — pardon our pun — infinite possibilities via future scientists, engineers, inventors, medical professionals, educators, business people and skilled workers.

All aboard for innovation, conservation Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
Four-dollar gas allows fringe ideas to get a fair hearing. Exhibit A: Commuter rail service between Minden and Shreveport.

Gas drilling will include some inconvenience Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
Letter writer: "Certainly a few of you will get some royalties from the drilling but most of you will only experience what we have experienced here in the Fort Worth area "" endless aggravation, noise and extremely heavy truck traffic."

Too many find AIDS a stumbling block in desire to be compassionate Christians Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
In the early 1980s the world was introduced to a disease unlike any it had witnessed in the modern era. It made all sexually active people think before acting. Of course, I'm speaking of AIDS.

Nitpicker's notebook: Has grammar 'Went with the Wind'? Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
Tired of reading about the same old errors — who/whom, lie/lay, it's/its? Well, here's a new one, spotted by reader Joe Greer: —¦[she] would set up the big Emerson isolating fan ... ." (That back-and-forth fan was oscillating.)

Wendy Benscoter: ShreveportBossierFunGuide spotlights attractions, events Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
Just two months ago, ShreveportBossierFunGuide.com, the community's new event and attraction calendar Web site was launched. We invite everyone, especially those who come in contact with tourists, to please check out this Web site to see just how easy it now is to find what there is to do and see in our area

Local writer, mom to donate kidney to 'stranger' Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:00:00 EST
Shreveport's Melissa Swanson, 32, married mother of two little boys and stepmom to two others, will on Aug. 5 donate one of her kidneys to a 44-year-old diabetic, husband and father, a man named Masud Khondoker, an electrical engineer and native of Bangladesh who came to America 25 years ago on a student visa.

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