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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...
The times they are a-changin’
It is amazing to me how some people are blinded by the past and “the way we've always done it before.” They see the...
