Columns

A recent ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could have negative implications for the development of quality affordable housing...

There are those who expected the sky would fall on the day the U.S. Justice Department announced its decision not to prosecute two Baton...

It wasn’t easy for Tommy Kurtz to leave Louisiana. The former Louisiana Economic Development executive grew up in New Orleans—a Jesuit High School Blue...

Supporters of the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging will tell you their organization and its embattled executive director, Tasha Clark-Amar, have been unfairly...

When a contract worth somewhere between $250 million and $350 million is up for grabs, you have to know it’s not going to go...

On March 15, more than three months after her election, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s transition team leaders were scheduled at last to release the...

Baton Rouge will soon face what, inevitably, will become a pivotal moment in its history. That moment might come a week from now. It...

It’s been nearly a year since a study on the feasibility of building a new Baton Rouge Zoo put the estimated cost at $110...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting a new family that has relocated to Baton Rouge. They don’t have a lot of money and...

When Louisiana Economic Development was trying to woo GE Capital to Louisiana in 2013 to open a technology center in downtown New Orleans, it...

Has the productivity of the working mothers in your office dropped off over the last couple of weeks? I know mine has. Here’s the problem:...

On Jan. 14, the Metro Council voted 8-4 against putting Mayor Kip Holden’s $335 million package of proposed public safety construction projects, including a...

In the category of being careful what you wish for could go the pending reorganization of the Department of Public Works. City-parish leaders and...

Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, a historically black university in New Orleans, penned a column in The Advocate recently that was another attack...

As a writer, year-end retrospectives always strike me as a bit self-indulgent. Still, it’s hard not to look back at the local events that...

When I began my reporting career in the late 1980s there still existed a shred of rationality in political debate and even occasional moments...

Forbes magazine has released its new rankings for “Best States for Business,” and Louisiana is moving up and looking good. “The biggest gainer this year...

Tommy Spinosa’s announcement that he has landed the hipster movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse as anchor tenant of Rouzan’s Village Center was couched in...