Residents filled Houma s Dumas Auditorium Thursday to hear the latest information about vaccines, crime, the justice system and other issues.
Hosted by Terrebonne Councilman Carl Harding, the informational meeting featured presentations from some of Terrebonne’s top officials including Parish President Gordy Dove, Emergency Preparedness Director Earl Eues, Sheriff Tim Soignet, Police Chief Dana Coleman, several judges, council members, business leaders, attorneys and other dignitaries.
In addition to hurricane preparation, Eues urged attendees to take the COVID-19 vaccination because local cases are on the rise.
“We’re starting to have a lot of cases of the coronavirus again,” Eues said. “The dominant strain is the delta strain which is very contagious. If you’ve not gotten the vaccine please get it. Almost 100% of those who are in the hospital right now have not been vaccinated. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, please wear masks, continue to social
A proposal to install traffic cameras in school zones throughout Terrebonne has been delayed 30 days while parish attorneys examine any legal issues associated with the program.
Readers reflect on the role of chance, randomness and responsibility in their own lives
Is our life’s course predetermined or could we change it on the flip of a coin or throw of a dice? Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy
Is our life’s course predetermined or could we change it on the flip of a coin or throw of a dice? Photograph: Brian Jackson/Alamy
Letters
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What high-quality letters (29 April) on free will. My A-level psychology students always found this fascinating and usually thought that free will was obvious until they had examined their own lives and realised that “soft determinism”, well-expounded by Robert Dimmick, was the likely answer. However, there is a big role for chance.
Council approves $4 million bond sale for park despite concerns it could scuttle rec reform plan
A local recreation board has won final approval to sell $4 million worth of bonds to build a new park despite concerns it will hobble or kill a proposal to reform Terrebonne Parish s public recreation system.
The Terrebonne Parish Council, during a contentious meeting Wednesday night, approved Rec District 1 s request to sell the bonds and use the money for a new Coteau-Bayou Blue Park.
Here is how council members voted on the bond sale:
For: Carl Harding, Dirk Guidry, Steve Trosclair, Gerald Michel, Daniel Babin.
Those who suggest free will is an illusion are ignoring the gap in our understanding of consciousness and its relationship to the quantum realm in which randomness (ie indeterminism) has been proven to be real by the National Institute for Science and Technology’s work on a randomness beacon. Causal determinism in the human brain is on a shoogly peg, and it is likely that Laplace’s demon could no more make accurate predictions about the universe than about a football match, or any situation where the outcome is influenced by human consciousness. Given our lack of understanding about consciousness, any argument against free will is at best incomplete and at worst requires a quasi-religious leap of faith around something we do not understand enough to make such bold claims.