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Train wreck delayed, not prevented
The Obama administration announced on July 2 that the Jan. 1, 2014 deadline for many employers to provide health insurance for their employees or pay a penalty was being pushed back by one year. […]
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Looking Back Part III: The Tort Reform Special Session of 1996
For years the civil justice system in Louisiana was one of the worst in the nation in spite of very few bills being passed by the Legislature to liberalize tort laws and generate more lawsuits. […]
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Partisanship has no place in regulatory bureaucracies
Much has been said, and deservedly so, about the IRS targeting conservative non-profit groups regarding their applications for tax-exempt status. […]
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Session ends but problems, conflicts continue
Perhaps the kindest thing that can be said about the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature is that it didn’t result in the need for a follow-up Special Session. […]
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State construction is a vicious cycle
The taxpayers of Louisiana are constantly paying for new state buildings because maintenance of existing buildings is not a priority. […]
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Driver’s license or passport needed?
Recent federal law requires that in order to use one’s driver’s license as an I.D. for boarding a flight on a commercial airline the license must include certain information in the magnetic strip. […]
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What’s at the end of the road?
The Senate Finance Committee approved increasing the state’s Operating Budget mostly using more one-time and highly-suspect revenues.
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Looking back at the election from hell
Perhaps the lowest point in my career with LABI and my involvement with Louisiana politics was the infamous “Election from Hell” in 1991: Edwin Edwards versus David Duke. […]
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Obama administration – where ignorance is bliss
If FDR had the same advisors that Barack Obama has, he wouldn’t have known that Pearl Harbor had been bombed until media reports filtered back to the mainland. […]