Presidential campaigns are in some respects like a gruesome war. Large, well-financed armies of partisans slug it out in battles designed to rally their voters into action and to drive down the favorable impressions of the opposing candidate. […]
Pres. Barrack Obama tried to quell the racial uproar he helped create over the arrest of a black Harvard professor. […]
The Legislature has adjourned, but the dust from this session probably will not settle before next year’s session begins. […]
An interesting letter to the editor about how many of the problems in this country can be solved if government got out of the way was printed in the Lafourche Gazette last week. […]
Beyond the high rhetoric of the 44th President of the United States, some interesting trends seem to be developing. […]
The leges can’t seem to get the hang of who it is that they represent. […]
One of the most controversial proposals that will be debated in the upcoming legislative session will be attempts to increase Louisiana’s homestead exemption for residential property taxes. […]
When the state of Louisiana has so much money that it doesn’t even know about $163 million of it, it has too much money.
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Four of our five living ex-governors got together the other day to express dismay over our present governor’s intention to cut spending on higher education. […]
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