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Fried-Golden Parachutes & Premium Parasites—A Family Talk about the Insurance Squeeze

Fried-Golden Parachutes & Premium Parasites—A Family Talk about the Insurance Squeeze By Dean Burnette | Louisiana-born, Georgia-grown, grateful-to-be-American Pull up a rocker and set the sweet tea between us.  I’ve been stewing on these double-digit rate hikes the big insurers are wanting to slap on Georgia families like a cast-iron skillet upside the head.  We’re […]

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Sometimes God Stirs the Pot

Sometimes God Stirs the Pot: Lessons from Katrina, Government Stirring, and Life’s Unexpected Blessings

Well now, pull up a chair and let this old Southern boy pour you a glass of sweet tea. It feels like just yesterday, but the calendar tells me it’s been twenty long years since Hurricane Katrina tore through my home state of Louisiana. Twenty years. Lord have mercy, time does fly. I was talking

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A Southern Perspective On Modern Equity

DEI: When Good Intentions Meet Questionable Results – A Southern Perspective on Modern “Equity” 

July 29th, 2025 Well now, bless their hearts, I just read about a gathering down in Savannah where folks were singing the praises of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Now, before y’all start reaching for your smelling salts, let me be clear as sweet tea on a summer day – I ain’t got nothing against

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