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Riegel: Getting beyond the gridlock
On Aug. 4, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Congressman Cedric Richmond held a press conference to announce they’d secured $60 million in federal highway...
Riegel: Our summer of discontent grows darker by the day
When I woke up on a recent Monday morning, I scanned the headlines on my phone to learn that a suicide bomber had blown...
Stephanie Riegel: Bracing for change in the nonprofit sector
Big change is coming to the local nonprofit sector, and like most change it won’t be easy.
In the next few weeks, dozens of area...
Stephanie Riegel: Pursuing the American Dream under the Perkins Road overpass
On a brilliant spring Saturday, Our Hardware held its grand opening earlier this month in the old Overpass Cleaners building at 2929 Perkins Road,...
Stephanie Riegel: Vilifying the Baton Rouge Health District
On March 2, John Spain, executive vice president of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, and East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Director Frank Duke were...
Stephanie Riegel: Hanging by a thread
In early February, the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority’s Board of Commissioners decided to cancel its bimonthly meeting, not that anyone much noticed.
“There was...
Stephanie Riegel: Lessons learned at Howell Place
There’s a lot of interest lately in redeveloping north Baton Rouge.
Earlier this year, State Rep. Regina Barrow, who represents north Baton Rouge, succeeded in...
Stephanie Riegel: Higher ed sinks while we scream about LSU football
During the recent Thanksgiving holidays, Europe was still reeling from the Paris bombings, Turkey was shooting Russian planes out of the sky, and the...
Stephanie Riegel: A long journey awaits Baton Rouge’s airport
The same week the Baton Rouge Metro Airport released a new study designed to measure its passenger “leakage” and explore ways to address the...
Stephanie Riegel: Solving a CRISIS
The next time you’re sitting in one of those maddening traffic jams that seem increasingly frequent on I-10 of late, you can take solace...
Stephanie Riegel: The futility of trying to build a bus culture in a car...
If you’ve ever ridden a Capital Area Transit System bus from the Mall of Louisiana to downtown, you’re one of the few. Apparently, ridership...
Stephanie Riegel: A step backward for biking?
Neighborhood controversies may seem trivial to those who don’t live within the affected area. But the way the skirmishes play out often speaks volumes...
Stephanie Riegel: A different approach to tackling poverty
In 2013, a Texas-based energy company with operations throughout the Gulf Coast announced a major investment in the Baton Rouge area that would bring...
Stephanie Riegel: Lessons learned from Tubal-Cain
When Port Arthur, Texas-based Tubal-Cain Marine Services approached the Port of Greater Baton Rouge in late 2013 about leasing 60 acres of its riverfront...
Stephanie Riegel: The importance of perspective, 10 years after the storm
There were two types of Hurricane Katrina evacuees: Those who couldn’t wait to get back to their city to rebuild, and those who wanted...
Stephanie Riegel: It’s time to stop ignoring our shortcomings
Earlier this summer, Amedisys confirmed it will open a “satellite office” in either Nashville or New Orleans that will house the majority of the...
Stephanie Riegel: Does the East Baton Rouge Parish Library really need a new south...
When the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Board of Control asked voters for a tax increase in 2005, among the promises it made to...
Stephanie Riegel: Unpaid tickets: an obvious problem with uncertain solutions
Problems with unpaid parking tickets are nothing new in Baton Rouge. From time to time, various media outlets report on the millions of dollars...
Stephanie Riegel: Change comes to a neighborhood
Overpass Cleaners will close its doors later this month after nearly 70 years in business. Since the late 1940s, the family-owned business has operated...
Stephanie Riegel: Do we really support public transit?
Baton Rougeans love to complain about the city’s gridlock and infrastructure issues—and justifiably so. Both anecdotal information and hard data suggest our traffic problems...
