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Jindal makes case for the moral logic of school choice in ‘WSJ’ column
There is a more fundamental and practical reason to favor school choice than the potential for better learning environments or religious education: It empowers...
Door closing on Legislature
If you believe political trends from recent history routinely repeat themselves, then what we’ve seen from this current crop of state legislators may be...
JR Ball: The trench warfare over St. George
So here’s what we know about right now about the St. George incorporation effort:
Incorporation organizers issue a report or give a speech that...
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...
JR Ball: Getting priorities straight in Louisiana
Here’s a pretty important conversation we’re not having in Louisiana: What’s the appropriate role of state government in our lives? More specifically: Where and...
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...
Publisher: Speak up Baton Rouge and be bold
Last month my wife and I enjoyed a special evening on what used to be the old City Dock at the Water Campus on...
Emerging goal: More females involved in Democratic politics
POLITICS READY: Among the Baton Rouge-area women going through the Emerge program are, from left, Alsie Dunbar, Belinda Davis and Morgan Lamandre. (Photo by...
JR Ball: BRAC’s selective ‘greater good’ love of Baton Rouge
In news shocking to exactly no one, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and its board of directors has decided an independent city of St....
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...
Publisher: New beginnings and finishing well
Sometimes, in the midst of all the chaos and the 24-hour news cycle, we get a brief respite and change of perspective; a moment...
Baton Rouge casinos looking to land a winning hand
LANDLUBBER: L’Auberge Casino, like Baton Rouge’s two other riverboat casinos, has seen monthly revenues decline for seven straight months. Casino executives are hoping the...
JR Ball: The battle over America’s next great city
Baton Rouge, brace yourself: An ex-pat loyal to the cause has intercepted communiqués indicating some damn Yankees from the Commonwealth of Virginia are on...
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...
Publisher: What’s going on in America?
When I watch and read the “news,” I often ask myself, “What the hell is going on? Have people gone nuts with no filters?”...
Plan Baton Rouge scores big in its 20-year quest to revitalize downtown
The transformation of downtown Baton Rouge as a place to live, work and play has been stunning over the past 20 years. (Photo by...
CABL: Outside forces should not derail Louisiana pension reform
Legislation to reform one of Louisiana’s major retirement plans is being shelved by the state retirement system that proposed it because of opposition from...
JR Ball: Baton Rouge embraces #MeOnly movement
There’s an interesting phenomenon playing out here in the next great American city of Baton Rouge: We’re embracing a life of self-absorption and isolationism.
Call...
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...
Publisher: Voting for police and our children
This Saturday, we go to the polls to vote on renewals for taxes that we currently pay but are set to expire. Many of...
