TANGI GUMBO A little bit of everything you need to know

• Students can earn certifications on seven work site machines and five additional industry-based certifications this summer with Nunez Workforce’s Heavy Equipment program. The seven-week course runs from July 8 to August 22 and costs $5,500.

INSURANCE Insider

Navigating Rising Medicare Supplement Costs in 2024: What You Need to Knowwith Tonya AikenIf you’ve been keeping an eye on your Medicare Supplement costs lately, you might have noticed something unsettling – rates are going up, and fast.

The Alligator

Okay, swampies. Serious question for you all: who is the most cultured and best traveled alligator you know?Just kidding! That wasn’t a serious question at all! It was rhetorical, at best. Everyone knows that the most cultured and best traveled alligator anywhere is OLD HARDHIDE.

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• Calling all Southeastern Alumni 40 and under. Have you purchased your tickets for YAS: Young Alumni Social? The Southeastern Alumni GOLD Council is proud to present its third YAS: Young Alumni Social on Friday, June 21, at The Hammond Regional Arts Center.

Take Hardhide

Take Hardhide out to the baaallll gaaame. Take … oh, never mind. School is out, which means Old Hardhide is deprived of his sports-watching hobby.

What Are You Willing to Do?

The answer to this question will change depending on the season in our lives. What I am willing to do today completely differs from what I was willing to do two years ago.As you know, I always write about what I am currently experiencing. This week was an eye-opener for me.

Keeping It Real in REAL ESTATE

Negotiations – In the Line of FireI went to an education seminar this week that inspired this article. Buyers and sellers do not realize all the different hurdles that we, as agents, go through to get our clients to the closing table.

The Alligator

Helllooooo to all my favorite swampies!Your favorite host with the most is back with an appetite and good tidings for everyone. I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day last weekend. Momma Gator was happy to see me, as everyone is, which is completely understandable.

Keeping It Real in REAL ESTATE

Relationships in BusinessI have a deal going on right now with a newer agent, which is my inspiration for this article.When we get our first job, we are taught that the “customer is always right.” I have learned that this is not always the case.There are other factors in a successful business model.

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• Southeastern Louisiana University dance students attended the 51st American College Dance Association annual conference in Jackson, Miss., at Belhaven University last month.