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Maintenance program improves 53 roads
As the 2010 Parish Road Maintenance Program comes to a close, contractors have made improvements to 8.5 total miles of local streets in each St. Charles Parish community. […]
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Oil, gas drilling unlikely to return to normal
Left entirely to the whims of the Obama administration, there is little hope that oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico will remotely resemble the pre-moratorium activity levels any time soon. […]
Allen Lottinger
Races work together in St. Charles
Recent observance of the 200th anniversary of the 1811 slave revolt here and our continued celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a march and rally on River Road show the respect for freedom of the races in St. Charles Parish.
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Jindal continues to ignore state’s problems
Wednesday, at the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, “The Roads Scholar” missed a perfect opportunity to assure the public and especially the business community that he has a plan for addressing the state’s $1.6 billion “fiscal cliff.”
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Several government trends to watch in 2011
Trends in government and economics don’t begin or end with a new year. They are a trail that moves through past and present into the future. […]
Allen Lottinger
Senate leaders show respect
It was good to see John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi holding hands as they convened the opening of the 112th Congress in Washington last week. And after so many fierce words in the year just past.
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Allen Lottinger
Jindal bases future on the youth
Gov. Bobby Jindal gave an enlightened talk at Destrehan Library last Thursday as part of a statewide “Building a Better Louisiana for Our Children” tour. […]
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Louisiana now facing a fiscal train wreck
The latest U.S. Census figures indicate that despite all the grandiose talk by Bobby Jindal as to how well the economy in Louisiana compares to that of other states, it’s simply a lie.
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Allen Lottinger
Prepare yourselves for a wonderful year in 2011
There’s a wonderful year ahead in 2011 with a lot to look forward to. It may make all the other years small in comparison.
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