Columns
Hagler-Hearns revisited?
I will never forget “The War” between boxers “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler and Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns fought on April 15, 1985. I watched it at a closed-circuit big screen TV location. […]
Articles by Dan Juneau
Columns
Roberts healthcare decision confusing
John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, confused me (and many others) greatly in rendering his obtuse majority decision upholding the individual mandate in the court’s Affordable Care Act decision.
Columns
High price for purity
Our chief justice of the Supreme Court fled from the field of sanity on June 28 and ceded the struggle over containing massive federal government control over commerce and individual rights to the motley crew in Congress who laid the decomposing cadaver of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on his door step. […]
Columns
State retirement system remains broken
In the early weeks leading up to the 2012 Legislative Session, state lawmakers were inundated with phone calls and correspondence regarding Governor Jindal’s education reform initiative. […]
Business
These aren’t your father’s unions
Not many people know that the president of the largest association of business and industry in Louisiana grew up in a union household. […]
Columns
Public sector unions lose big
Governor Walker became the first governor to survive a recall election. Walker campaigned against public sector union collective bargaining excesses when he ran for governor in 2010. […]
Columns
There are no cuts in Washington
Baton Rouge and Washington are starting to resemble each other when it comes to fiscal issues. In Washington, no budget has passed Congress and been signed into law in over three years. […]
Columns
Election only 6 months away
Six months from now, Americans will determine who will serve for the next four years as commander in chief of our armed forces and the chief executive of the mammoth executive branch of the federal government. […]
Columns
Beware the ides of May
In a few short weeks, the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) will meet to update the revenue estimates available to balance the budget now being considered by the Legislature. […]