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Posted on October 29 at 1:10 p.m.

The Republicans need to choose between their possible leaders. Who would debate better with Obama- Jindal or Palin? Two opposites. Its a shame that Palin was chosen as VP candidate when I think only Jindal can match Obama's intellectual credentials and sharpness of mind.

On Jindal hunts big game

Posted on February 1 at 10:33 p.m.

Perhaps the greatest good that will come out of this mess is that the business school will not be built. The business report should not take sides without investigating the merits. The business school is a subsidy to the engineering school. The faculty and the students in the business school are being ripped off (and most faculty agree). All faculty offices will be without windows (try recruiting new faculty then), graduate student labs will be no longer there (you can forget LSU installing the expensive software grad students need in larger labs), and the list goes on. Sean o Keefe wanted to build this thing just to have it on his resume. Hopefully now it will get a reprieve.

On A mob and a hit man at LSU

Posted on January 16 at 12:15 a.m.

First of all why should O'Keefe be holier than thou. When O'Keefe was appointed - my reaction was bravo Louisiana. here we go again. A Louisianan bureaucrat gets an ideal retirement package!
It strikes me as hypocritical of the businessreport that on one hand it espouses radical change in Louisiana but has no problems when a partisan bureaucrat appears from nowhere and gets to become the chancellor of the university. How is this chancellor not a part of the old boys network of Louisiana? Appointing one govt agency's director to lead a state university is more in tune with third world bureaucracy (and louisiana).
Having said that, the real question is whether O'Keefe has been successful. Honestly, I am still not sure what he has been successful at other than forcing a fancy new traffic system on campus.
It also annoys me that both the businessreport and the advocate are so enamored with the business school building. It reflects a complete lack of investigative reporting. The business school will offer less square footage than the faculty already have in Taylor Hall. The current dean is fighting to ensure there is a computer lab in the new business school(!). There will be only enough office room for existing faculty with no room for growth. And they are going to break ground soon even when half the costs required from private sources has not even been raised. In fact its wisdom has been openly questioned by the faculty within the business school.
Of course it looks nice from outside and it will look nice on O'Keefe's cv.
I guess some local businessmen like him. Very good. But remember political economy 101- if the politicians in a state are corrupt then so are "successful" businesses.
Maybe Lombardi is more like Jindal and would like to shake things up. Its just too bad that they may not see eye to eye.
Finally, why is business report so worried about Lombardi throwing verbal bombs. At least someone is being upfront and honest about the problems. Isnt that what Louisiana needs?

On TWO CENTS: Publisher takes LSU’s president and Board to task