Allen Lottinger
Hurricane season has its advantages
Just this past weekend, this writer was at Grand Isle, sitting on the beach in the sunshine and reading a book. It was slightly windy and the waves were tumbling in.
Editorial
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. […]
Editorial
Asleep at the wheel on tax credit wreck
Despite that he often engages in an adversarial relationship with reporters and bloggers, Gov. Bobby Jindal owes a debt of gratitude to Greg Hilburn of the Monroe News Star and his severest cyber critic, C.B. Forgotston. […]
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
Equalizing the power of the legislatures
We constantly hear the leges whining about how much power the governor of Louisiana has and how little they have.
Editorial
Is our greatest yearning being sated?
Are we in touch with our greatest Yearning? Are we in touch with the deepest ache of our heart? Or is it covered over by superficial and surface satisfactions that never really reach our deepest ache? […]
Editorial
Jindal slick with his oil politics
Since its difficulties with Huey Long, Big Oil has sought to develop warm relations with Louisiana governors and vice versa, if they knew what was good for them. […]
Columns
The anatomy of a deal
Rep. Joel Robideaux is a political opportunist who until he decided to run for Speaker of the House was not a member of any political party. […]
Editorial
Outnumbered democrats are picking their fights
Arriving for their day at the Legislature, the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha, clad in salmon and green, had no idea they were about to kill a bill. […]