State's Rural Areas Need Help
By Jim Beam
American Press
Louisiana’s small rural towns are hurting while most of its urban areas are experiencing rapid growth. So should those of us who live in metropolitan areas be concerned about our less-fortunate citizens?
I asked myself that question as I read a story in The Advocate about the problems in the state’s rural areas and another one that said, “Bogalusa is slowly dying.” It was then that I remembered something about “being my brother’s keeper.”