State revenues will decline; Legislature should shift money State revenues are expected to decline by $1.6 billion for the new fiscal year that starts July 1, and that continuing deterioration of income for government programs and services is creating incre...
Letter to the Editor Dear Editor:
For decades the political power of the Louisiana State Senate has disproportionately rested with trial attorneys. Term limits and population shifts following Hurricane Katrina are two...
Remapping pits North versus South Two months ago, congressional reapportionment was settled in the back room of a Chinese restaurant in Washington, D.C.In a dinner meeting there, all but one of the state’s seven U.S. representat...
Schools not interested in red tape reduction Legislation enacted last year allowing Louisiana public schools to sidestep some laws, rules and regulations that could deter progress and student achievement looked good on paper, but there has be...
Decrease in contracts a good first step BATON ROUGE (CNS)-The big news out of the nation’s capital recently was a Feb. 3 Washington Post story trumpeting the fact that the federal government spent $15 billion less on contracts for outsid...
Budget balancing requires increase in flexibility Gov. Bobby Jindal deserves support from the legislature for his efforts to create increased flexibility in the state budget process that would eliminate the need for deep and continuing cuts in hea...
Letter to Editor Dear Editor:
I write to express my dismay at the massive amounts of litter being deposited on our roads by our citizens. I recently picked up two garbage bags of trash, including 23 Walmart plasti...
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