Politics & Policy

Metro Council nixes measure to fund, hire executive search firm for new Baton Rouge airport director

Metro Council member Barbara Freiberg’s hard-fought battle to conduct a national search for a...

Eddie Rispone creates nonprofit to take on Together Baton Rouge

Businessman Eddie Rispone has formed a nonprofit organization—Baton Rouge Families First—that is taking direct...

Alabama trouncing LSU in football … and enrollment growth

FLAGSHIP FLIES AT HOME: While most flagship universities across the country are actively recruiting...

JR Ball: The TOPS of Louisiana’s political pyramid

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

Publisher: Governor, it’s decision time on Louisiana’s ‘fiscal cliff’

After raising temporary taxes and given time to find solutions, two years later Louisiana...

Baton Rouge I-10 widening project to be paid for with borrowed federal dollars

The Edwards administration today unveiled a $600 million package of major interstate improvement projects,...
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BRAC lauds plan to rebuild, widen ‘worst traffic chokepoint’ in Baton Rouge

A large swath of Interstate 10 between the Mississippi River Bridge and the I-10/I-12...

Learning from the past: GO Zone initiatives could again help Baton Rouge

With much of New Orleans swamped by floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina, the use of...

Baton Rouge accountants scrambling to decipher details of federal tax overhaul

EXCITING TIMES: Brandon Lagarde, of Postlethwaite & Netterville, says the federal tax code was...

Small business gets last-minute good news in Trump tax overhaul

LOBBYING FOR A CHANGE: Complaints from groups like the National Federation of Independent Business,...