House calls
(From The Washington Post) Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama's jobs council, to be checked in for a...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
CABL president: Higher ed cuts would cause damage for decades
The cuts to higher education being proposed at the Capitol, if implemented, will be an "absolute disaster for Louisiana," says Council for a Better Louisiana President Barry Erwin. "Not just a disaster for schools and campuses, but for the entire...
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Time to get serious about the budget cuts to higher education
It's a hard statement to make, but we might as well go ahead and say it from the outset. The cuts being proposed today in higher education, if they are implemented, will be an absolute disaster for Louisiana. Not just a disaster for schools and...
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Columnists
LSU economist says government can reduce gas prices
LSU economist Joseph Mason argues in a new report that there are steps government can take to reduce gasoline prices. The report, "Monetary Policy, Gas Prices and the Impact on Small Businesses," says the Federal Reserve's commitment to near-zero...
DATE: May 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Compromising details
(From The Times-Picayune) After weeks of wrangling over a bill that would boost taxes on restaurant and bar tabs in a downtown "hospitality zone" and on hotels across New Orleans, supporters led by Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration have...
DATE: May 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
Your Business
• Adams and Reese's Baton Rouge office will be awarded the Pro Bono Publico Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association later this month. The award honors the office's attorneys for their enhancement and promotion of pro bono services in...
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Supersized
Three years into an organized effort to give southeastern Louisiana a more powerful voice in its economic future, leaders of the fledgling initiative say it has found its wings. The Southeast Super-Region Committee, formed to unite the Baton Rouge,...
DATE: May 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Current Issue
Jefferson Parish's contracting desperately needs reform, watchdog says
Despite a litany of reforms after scandal unraveled Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard's administration, the Jefferson Parish Council still has too much authority to award contracts to political insiders, the Bureau of Government Research...
DATE: May 11, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Proposed PUD in southeast B.R. requires rezoning
Developer Kevin Nguyen will go before the Planning Commission later this month to ask for the rezoning of roughly 90 acres of land bordered by Hoo Shoo Too and Womack roads in southeast Baton Rouge, just east of South Tiger Bend Road, on which he...
DATE: May 09, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
N.O. tourism officials will revise plan to create hospitality taxing zone
Tourism industry officials in New Orleans say they plan to introduce "substantial revisions" this week to a plan to create a taxing zone downtown that would generate money to promote tourism and pay for infrastructure improvements. As The...
DATE: May 09, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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