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

Natural gas powering the Louisiana energy industry

Fueled by the continued shale revolution and surging global energy demand, U.S. oil and...

JR Ball: Brother, can you spare $2 million for poor Baton Rouge?

The outrage was almost immediate. Baton Rouge and its city-parish government, with an annual...

JR Ball: Baton Rouge keeps wasting its enormous potential

As someone who grew up somewhere other than here, it’s forever amazing to me...

JR Ball: Living life in our Louisiana welfare state

It should come as a surprise to exactly no one that few states dole...

JR Ball: A golf clap for BREC

Anyone who even occasionally glances at this column knows I have something of an...

JR Ball: Yo, state legislators, stay out of Baton Rouge’s business

Fortunately, state Sen. Bodi White came to his legislative senses long enough to declare...

JR Ball: Louisiana voters deserve taxing truth this election

U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham and Baton Rouge businessman Eddie Rispone—the two Republican’s vying to...

JR Ball: Want technology jobs? Invest in people

Should Louisiana and Baton Rouge be doling out tax breaks, fancy office buildings and...

JR Ball: Big cities, like Baton Rouge, are a financial mess, too

The prospect, bluntly stated in my last column, of allowing Louisiana’s insolvent small towns...

JR Ball: Should dying Louisiana small towns be kept alive?

Those of us in Baton Rouge who actually pay taxes to the state of...
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