30-SECOND READ: DOO NOT ORANGE

BY: JEFF GAUGERI stood before a mirror in our bathroom last night, grasping my hair with both hands, a grimace slashing my face.“What’s the matter?”Ah, my ever-perceptive wife.“This hair is driving me nuts,” I said of the mop erupting in a world without professional haircuts.

16 PAGES OF POSITIVE NEWS!!

This week’s FOCUS SB is all positive news!Flip the paper over, andThe Inquisitor is 16 pages of crimeSubscribe today at http://www.theinquisitor.com

LSU HEALTH LAUNCHES COVID-19 ANTIBODY TESTING CAPABILITY

Scientists at LSU Health Shreveport continue to have a significant impact on the fight against COVID-19 in Louisiana with their latest achievement being able to offer serology testing.

WILLIS-KNIGHTON CONDUCTS CLINICAL TRIAL FOR COVID-19 THERAPY; DONORS WANTED

Willis-Knighton Health System has begun a clinical trial of the use of convalescent plasma therapy as an experimental treatment of COVID-19.Mayo Clinic is lead institution for this Food and Drug Administration-approved expanded access study, which allows institutions like Willis-Knighton to...

FOCUS FARMING BY: DAWN DILLARD FOR JACK DILLARD

Our “Easter Snap” that we are accustomed to here in the South blew through the area with much more than just cooler temperatures. Rain and wind crossed the Ark-La-Tex on Easter Sunday, leaving a lot of damage in its wake.

YOUR SPECIAL SUPERHERO POWER — SAVING LOCAL BUSINESS

BY:  LIZ SWAINE SHREVEPORT DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYA friend recently quipped that it takes seven times doing something to form a habit. I’m not sure if that number is correct, but I do know that once a habit is entrenched, it is hard to break.

.. AND THEY PULLED IT OFF

by:  JON GLOVER CONTRIBUTING COLUMNISTCOVID-19 came energetically. An energy to disrupt. An energy that did disrupt. Now because of COVID-19, life as we all knew it stopped.A virus, COVID-19 did not just disrupt lives. COVID-19 disrupted businesses.Now quarantine.

‘LISTEN UP’: MIXED MESSAGING IS CONFUSING OUR COMMUNITY

BY:  BILLY ROY WAYNEI just finished watching a news feature whereby what appears to be more than two dozen individuals lined up outside the LSU/ Ochsner health-care facility.

30-SECOND READ: SOFTENING SEPARATION’S STING

BY: JEFF GAUGERThe daily walk strengthens physical and mental health. It permits escape from pandemic’s house arrest.Yet the coronavirus has changed how walkers interact, in ways at once necessary, affirming and discouraging.No question, maintaining distance is necessary.

DEAR GABBY, I CAN’T HELP BEING VERY INQUISITIVE. IS THIS A BAD THING?

Dear Gabby,My name is Rylan, and I’m 13 years old. I get picked on a lot by the boys and girls that I know. They ridicule me because of my growing interest of becoming an inventor. An inventor of what, I do not know, yet. I find myself always questioning the mechanics of things.