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JR Ball is the former Executive Editor at Business Report and the head lacrosse coach at Louisiana State University.

JR Ball: St. George is just another Baton Rouge taxing district

What does the disaster known as Louisiana’s special legislative session and the second go-round...

News alert: ‘We’re back,’ St. George organizers declare

Declaring “we’re back,” organizers of the St. George incorporation movement filed the necessary paperwork...

News alert: ‘We’re back,’ St. George organizers declare

Declaring “we're back,” organizers of the St. George incorporation movement filed the necessary paperwork...

JR Ball: Making dollars-and-cents of the Louisiana Legislature

This much seems certain: There will be no meaningful budget or tax reforms in...

JR Ball: A lesson in budget cutting … Louisiana style

Bill John Edmunds, a 30-something hipster, and his fabulous wife Daniella have a budget...

JR Ball: The brutal Baton Rouge truth according to Jim Bernhard

God bless Jim Bernhard for having some serious chutzpah. The driving force behind Shaw Group...

JR Ball: The TOPS of Louisiana’s political pyramid

TOPS is the most important entitlement program in Louisiana. We know this because every...

JR Ball: Baton Rouge property tax bills get scrooged

There’s a bounty of reasons to love the Christmas and holiday season but, for...

JR Ball: Staring into the abyss of the unknown

Another year—and another Festivus airing of grievances—is almost in the books. It was a...

JR Ball: The audacity of questioning a police tax

If Baton Rouge politicians—regardless of party affiliation—have learned anything in their unending quest for...
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