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Riegel: A bittersweet look into an emptying nest
Over the course of the next three weeks, all three of my now-grown children will be leaving Louisiana—one to Teach for America in Ohio,...
Publisher: Bob Dylan gave us all good advice in ’64
Come gather ‘round, people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time...
‘Alford:’ Silly season has arrived in governor’s race
All credit goes to state Rep. Sam Jones, who probably stole it from someone else before I took it from him and made it...
Alford: The many faces of the governor’s race
They just keeping coming.
There are the super PACs connected (some firmly, others loosely) to the campaigns, ready and willing to spend money (lots of...
JR Ball: Perhaps Baton Rouge could use Batman to fight crime
Eight unrelated shootings in East Baton Rouge Parish over 10 days in late June left a senseless and bloody trail of bodies. Four lives...
Riegel: Louisiana’s role in the immigration debate
The immigration debate raging across the country may seem somewhat removed from us here in Louisiana, where the biggest threat to our southern border...
Publisher: Gov. John Bel Edwards is no conservative
If you look up John Bel Edwards on Wikipedia, it describes the governor as a “conservative Democrat.” Someone should correct that. Sure, as we...
Alford: And now the weather…
In south Louisiana, where politics and football are too easily labeled as theater and where forgotten pirates and fallen pastors maintain high regards, the...
Alford: Young voters, women candidates are trends to watch
On one side of the ballot, prognosticators and at least one poll are predicting that young voters will cast a long shadow over next...
Alford: Polling and politics are a match made in hell
Have you seen any polls lately?
Did you get our poll?
You're not going to cover that poll, are you?
Do you know who's in the field...
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 budget just shy of $1 billion, can’t find a spare...
Riegel: Making sense of the MovEBR management contracts
I am still struggling to understand how the city-parish and its two program management teams of 16 engineering and consulting firms—that’s right, 16—will efficiently...
Publisher: Take a single step forward on Florida Boulevard
It was sad reading our recent cover story (“No man’s land,” May 21) on the demise of Florida Boulevard. I participated with the Regional/Urban...
Alford: Storylines for the Louisiana governor’s race
The inaugural campaign of Gov. John Bel Edwards dished up a full course of lessons for Louisiana.
We found out that personality politics can...
JR Ball: Baton Rouge keeps wasting its enormous potential
As someone who grew up somewhere other than here, it’s forever amazing to me how Baton Rouge—a natural resource rich capital city with the...
Riegel: One small step for a north Baton Rouge community
In a recent column, I questioned why Louisiana, in general, and Baton Rouge, in particular, are so mired in the problems of the past...
Publisher: Dealing with change and neighborhoods
You may have read about the battle brewing in cities, including here in Spanish Town, over regulations relating to Airbnb. While this concept of...
Alford: They said it (regular session edition)
We should have known during the first week of April, that this was going to be a different kind of regular session.
All of the...
JR Ball: Living life in our Louisiana welfare state
It should come as a surprise to exactly no one that few states dole out more financial incentives in the name of economic development...
Riegel: Louisiana stays stuck in the problems of the past
On the same day that U.S. News and World Report issued its annual list of the Best States, ranking Louisiana dead last for the...
