Allen Lottinger
There’s always next year
Oh, when those Saints go marching in!
Editorial
Columns
Eliminating mid-year budget cuts
Mid-year budget cuts to state agencies in recent years have become chronic. Whenever a problem becomes chronic it is time to do something about it. […]
Columns
Does appointment meet legal requirements?
St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis was just appointed as the new head of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (“GOHSEP”). […]
Editorial
Review Bill of Rights today
The Bill of Rights is a list of limits on government power. For example, what the founders saw as the natural right of individuals to speak and worship freely was protected by the First Amendment’s prohibitions on Congress from making laws establishing a religion or abridging freedom of speech. […]
Editorial
Poll shows what’s on politician’s minds
The governor’s election did not offer much of a guidepost to the future, mainly because Gov. Bobby Jindal, barely challenged, said little about what he wants to do in his second term. […]
Editorial
Education change will test Jindal
Bobby Jindal is not the first governor to make education a top priority. Few haven’t. The dean of the Legislature, Sen. John Alario, says he has voted for “every education reform” past governors have come up with. […]
Allen Lottinger
Is the Green Wave getting ready to roll?
We know this is a bad time to boost the expectations of Tulane athletics with the LSU Tigers about to win the national football championship. […]
Allen Lottinger
Yes, Garland, people do read papers
Ho, ho, ho!
It’s not the sound of Santa coming to visit. It’s the laughter we put fourth after hearing a remark made by radio talk show host Garland Robinette Monday on WWL. […]
Editorial
State benefits while politicians feud
The principle that the greater good is best achieved when all parties set aside petty differences and personal agendas often is, in real life, over-rated. […]