JR Ball: Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide are using COVID-19 as an opportunity to make the most of a good crisis.

Baton Rouge is facing a multitude of life-altering decisions as we tiptoe closer to the end of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The goal is to save as many lives as possible without overwhelming the medical system, but destroying the economy creates another kind of human suffering.

St. George proponents claim what happens in the Louisiana Legislature this spring is more important than what happens in a Baton Rouge courtroom, but attorney Mary Olive Pearson says the issue of incorporation will ultimately be decided. by the state Supreme Court.

JR Ball: Democracy was never meant to be easy, but the brand of it on display in Baton Rouge is especially messy at the moment.

East Baton Rouge Parish, with its $32.8 billion GDP in 2018, would be the economic county leader in 15 states, including Louisiana.

JR Ball: As we enter a new decade, let's get a head start on previewing the lunacy that will be the news in Baton Rouge in 2020.

JR Ball: The Harveston mix-use development, like other projects by Mike Wampold, will be fantastic, but that doesn't mean it deserves a TIF.

Now that a cohort of prominent Baton Rouge business leaders have embraced the "greater good," perhaps they can turn their focus to the tax assessor and the job he's not doing.

JR Ball: The Louisiana governor's race was devoid of substance but filled with frightfully negative campaigning, and the voters loved it.