7.3.13

Half-baked budget critique provides no better alternative

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While it’s quite fair to point out the hazard behind the concept of using one-off revenues to fund an operating commitment, at the same time...
6.3.13

Legislature fiddles while passing on burning budget items

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Both efforts ended up the same way. That one did as it did and the other was pursued at all tells us all we need to know about the courage ...
5.3.13

GOP Jindal successor hopefuls differ in early strategies

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So you looked at a calendar and thought it was 2013? Guess again; it’s really 2015, you would derive from statements being made by individua...
4.3.13

Bills to privilege state laid off employees unjustifiable

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Mondays are slow news days, so today the Baton Rouge Advocate took out of the can a piece about a bill introduced the week before las...
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3.3.13

Excess funds tussle exemplifies need for genuine reform

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Reshuffling $120 million from a special district into state spending points out the absurdity of the present fiscal rules for Louisiana tha...
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28.2.13

Promising college funding plan may lack effectiveness

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Increasing bang for the buck in higher education has become a mission for many in the Louisiana Legislature in the past few years, and the l...
27.2.13

Misinformed Landrieu bullies to serve party, save job

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The remarks were as much about Sen. Mary Landrieu trying to save her job as it was her being a knight in the service of evisceration . ...
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26.2.13

Alternative hospital plan expands govt, not care dollars

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Journalists’ knowledge about public policy typically is like farm land during the Dust Bowl era – acres in coverage area but not even an inc...
25.2.13

Shreveport, Caddo show risks of govt-managed development

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Government as economic developer is a risky tool – just look at the fiscal disasters Bossier City has heaped upon its citizenry with its fo...
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23.2.13

Jindal continues challenging culture with privatizing budget

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If anybody had any doubts that Gov. Bobby Jindal seeks to change Louisiana’s political culture, his latest budget should dispel those, but...