Editorial
Edwards reveals income for campaign
As a requirement for running for Congress in the 6th District, former Gov. Edwin Edwards has filed his financial disclosure statement. […]
Louisiana
Editorial
Senate race becomes most expensive ever waged in state
If you’re already growing weary of seeing all those television ads about Louisiana’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race, then you’ll take little comfort in learning that there’s now more money flowing into the candidates’ campaign accounts than in any other comparable statewide election in recent history […]
Editorial
Testing the Tea: Maness campaign fully steeped in Senate race
While his campaign for the U.S. Senate has so far been defined by money and endorsements from national tea party groups, retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness of Mandeville could soon have the backing of the Family Research Council’s Action PAC, or political action committee. […]
Editorial
Hope remains for state transportation reform
The push by state Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, this year to restructure the strategic decision-making process at the Department of Transportation and Development crossed an important threshold last week with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature on his cornerstone legislation. […]
Editorial
Dynamics of 6th district race are shaping up
While a reporter from New York magazine has been in Baton Rouge recently keeping former Gov. Edwin Edwards occupied. […]
Government
Iraq needs our support
As time moves forward, it seems we are going backward to the times in the first half of the 1900s when we were faced with two world wars that brought more destruction than we had ever experienced. […]
Editorial
As lawmakers complain, Jindal’s poll numbers climb
Last week when higher education officials were scrambling to figure out whether they would need a seed loan to cover cash-flow payments, Gov. Bobby Jindal was in New York attending a meeting of the Republican Governor’s Association. […]
Editorial
Lawmakers second guess red money keeping budget in black
When the state signed a cooperative endeavor agreement last summer with the Russian-based company EuroChem, lawmakers barely took notice. […]
Columns
Don’t reward the avoidance of problems
At Monday’s Revenue Estimating Conference (“REC”) meeting, the group rejected including in the FY15 budget $54 million in savings proposed by the New York consulting firm of Alvarez and Marsal as unsubstantiated. […]