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If you like your state budget process peppered with uncertainty, drenched in politics and caked with circumstance, then I have some tremendous news for...

If the Louisiana House of Representatives has taught us anything over the past four years it’s that independence can take on many forms. Four years...

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.

Riegel: The Christmas message from President Donald Trump would have been nice if he actually practiced anything he preached in his holiday wishes.

Publisher: With Democrat John Bel Edwards as governor, the state Legislature firmly controlled by Republicans and no compromise in sight, it adds up to a long year.

Someone around the State Capitol should invest in name tags, because they would certainly make a killing during the new term that begins next...

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.

Riegel: King Alexander, who will be leaving to become president at Oregon State, did a remarkably good job leading the LSU system during challenging times.

Publisher: There are lessons every government official and corporate executive can learn from what LSU football has accomplished—and how they did it.

That didn't take long.  Then again, it makes sense that the first real controversy of the upcoming term of state government involves one of the...