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Stories like the two below this shameless request for financial contributions are what I do here at LouisianaVoice.

As Baton Rouge radio talk show host Jim Engster observed during one of my appearances on his show, the flood of August 2016 destroyed my home but it didn’t get my computer. LouisianaVoice continued its quest for stories other media ignore or don’t know about.

I’m not the greatest reporter to come down the pike. Far from it. I can think of several right here in Baton Rouge who are far better than I. But for the most part, they are constrained in what they can pursue by sheer economics as newspapers, suffering from the loss of ad revenue, are cutting back exactly where they shouldn’t: in the news room. This puts a strain on small staffs to cover all the news. Consequently, some deserving stories get what my grandmother described as “a lick and a promise.”

I am a retiree with nothing but time on my hands and a pickup truck and a computer at my disposal. I can dig deeper than a reporter on a deadline can. For me, it’s not a sprint to beat a deadline, it’s a marathon to reach the finish line with the full story.

But to do so, I need your help. As I said, I’m a retiree on a fixed income and this blog does incur expenses. Anything you can contribute, no matter how large or small, would be appreciated more than you could ever know. Your contribution helps us to defer expenses of paying for copies of records, gasoline, auto repair, computer maintenance, printer cartridges, etc. Everything you give goes to gathering and reporting news of corruption, graft, ethics violations, and general mismanagement of your tax dollars.

Please help by clicking on the yellow “DONATE” button at the right of this post and give by credit card or by mailing a check to:

LouisianaVoice

P.O. Box 922

Denham Springs, LA. 70726

And thanks so much!

Tom Aswell, publisher