Editor: La.'s corporate tax breaks breaking higher education
Regardless of whatever stats, rankings or carefully shaded reports the Jindal administration puts out regarding job creation or the state of the state's economy, Business Report Executive Editor JR Ball says, in truth, Louisiana is on a...
DATE: June 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
LaPolitics by Maginnis: Closing money moves made
"We will have a budget. We go through this every year," Gov. Bobby Jindal said recently during a rare House appearance to honor retiring Supreme Court Chief Justice Kitty Kimball. He's right in that the end game is shaping up to be the same as in...
DATE: June 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
News roundup: La. first-time jobless claims increase … Visit Baton Rouge name change official … Former NBA player Orlando Woolridge dead at 52
Workingman's blues: First-time claims for unemployment insurance in Louisiana for the week ending May 26 increased from the previous week's total. The state labor department figures released Friday show the initial claims increased...
DATE: June 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Capitol Views by Maginnis: Breakaway school district bill fails again
The debate was much briefer today, but the end result was the same, as the House refused to approve a constitutional vote on the breakaway school district for southeast Baton Rouge. The vote was 60-35, six less than the vote earlier this week. After...
DATE: June 01, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Riffs: Madeline Taylor
“This image has stuck with me for some time now. There's just something about it that calls out to me, and I become transfixed by its depths. Not only are there two separate rooms here, but the stillness of the water creates a completely...
DATE: May 31, 2012 | CATEGORY: News (225)
Maginnis: Jindal pretty 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. In order to advance nationally within the Republican Party, whose last national...
DATE: May 29, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Capitol Views by Maginnis: Kennedy budget plan buried by Senate panel
The final full week of the legislative session, which budgetary issues will dominate, started today with the aggressive cost-cutting plan of Treasurer John Kennedy being stopped cold in Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy presented bills by Rep. Dee...
DATE: May 29, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Gonzales council to take up 1% sales tax hike for Tanger on Tuesday
The Gonzales City Council on Tuesday is set to take a final vote on a proposed 1% sales tax increase at the Tanger Outlet Center that would be split by the outlet center and the city. Tanger would get 70% of the extra sales tax—which would...
DATE: May 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Changes spark worry about La. desegregation cases
Changes to the state's multibillion-dollar school funding formula pushed by the Jindal administration could create problems with ongoing desegregation lawsuits in five parishes, parish education leaders say. Avoyelles Parish officials had been...
DATE: May 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
News roundup: Woodlake Drive bridge ordered closed immediately … La. first-time jobless claims increase … Apple CEO Cook forgoes $75M in stock dividends
Span shuttered: City-parish officials announced today that the Woodlake Drive bridge over Jones Creek near South Harrell's Ferry Road has been closed due to "critical deficiencies." DOTD inspectors found several deficiencies during...
DATE: May 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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