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Riegel: An entertaining downtown Baton Rouge debate
Metro Councilman Lamont Cole says his recently defeated ordinance that would have allowed bars and restaurants to stay open until 4 a.m. was borne...
Publisher: Two bridges reveal traffic problem: politics
A week doesn’t go by that I don’t hear a conversation about traffic all over town or the need for a “new” bridge. But...
Riegel: What Baton Rouge can learn from Cincinnati
“Why Cincinnati?” a member of Baton Rouge’s business community asked me in late May, when I mentioned I was going on BRAC’s Canvas Benchmarking...
Riegel: Another Baton Rouge land use controversy
Local land use controversies often speak to larger issues about the way things roll in a city, state or region.
Such is the case with...
Riegel: Saga of a star-crossed downtown library project
Sometimes, fate just has it out for someone or—in the case of the downtown branch library—something.
Multiple times over the past dozen years the stars...
Riegel: The hard truth about Louisiana’s coastal crisis
Earlier this month, researchers at Tulane University released a report that made headlines in national newspapers and waves in coastal engineering circles.
But most people...
Riegel: Living in an era of digital distractions
My Twitter feed recently sent me a “rare family photograph of Kim Kardashian West and clan.” I didn’t want to click on it but...
Riegel: Questions raised by the Baton Rouge Zoo debate
(Editor's Note: This column has been updated from an earlier version to include new information since its original publication.)
The debate over moving BREC’s Baton...
Riegel: Once again, Louisiana is dead last
On the same late February day that economic development officials from across Louisiana were gathering at L’Auberge Casino for the third annual Statewide Economic...
Riegel: DPW reorganization revisted
In 2014, former Mayor Kip Holden’s administration decided the citizens of Baton Rouge would be better served if the Department of Public Works was...
Riegel: A moment of truth for the business community
About this time last year, many—though not all—of the Capital Region’s business leaders and organizations came out in support of a proposed gasoline tax...
Riegel: Realities of the Louisiana budget situation
The state’s current budget situation—as much as a $1 billion revenue shortfall come July 1—is troubling, not in the least because lawmakers have known...
Riegel: Bayou Café owner Frank Brown is making a difference in north Baton Rouge
Recently, I wrote a Daily Report story about a new social enterprise being launched by Frank Brown, the longtime owner and executive chef of...
Riegel: Building a tech ecosystem in Louisiana
Louisiana frequently finds itself at or near the bottom of lists that measure things like educational attainment, mortality rates and poverty levels.
Yet another to...
Riegel: The challenges of fighting child pornography
Literally every other week, on average, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office issues a press release announcing the arrest of someone, or several people,...
Riegel: Moving past the ‘Mad Men’ antics
I was riding a spin bike at the gym on the morning longtime NBC Today show host Matt Lauer joined the growing list of...
Riegel: Why Baton Rouge got trumped on DXC deal
It is customary for the superlatives to fly on the day a major economic development deal is unveiled. So it was, perhaps, not surprising...
Riegel: Why historic tax credits matter
The preservation and development communities often find themselves at odds over regulations that dictate what you can—and can’t—do to old buildings in historic neighborhoods.
But...
Riegel: Crumbling academic buildings? LSU has a lazy river!
A recent issue of the esteemed Chronicle of Higher Education takes LSU to task for its new lazy river, a luxury lounge pool that is...
Riegel: The final chapter in landman’s environmental crusade?
Ten years ago, Baton Rouge landman Dan Collins did a risky and politically unpopular thing, when he filed an environmental whistleblower lawsuit against the...
