Columns
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. […]
Opinions & Responses
Columns
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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Opinions & Responses
Law enforcers doing a good job
It’s hard to feel good about a reduction in the crime rate because any crime at all is a bad thing. […]
Columns
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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Editorial
Year’s top stories to be continued in 2011
Oftentimes, the bright side of many of the year’s top political stories is that they are behind us, and the bad memories will fade with time. […]
Columns
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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Opinions & Responses
Its time to finish restoring our coast
Several years ago, it was predicted we would be beyond the point of no return in saving the Louisiana coast if a lot of work to restore it were not done within 10 years. […]
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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