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Alford: Young voters, women candidates are trends to watch
On one side of the ballot, prognosticators and at least one poll are predicting that young voters will cast a long shadow over next...
Alford: Polling and politics are a match made in hell
Have you seen any polls lately?
Did you get our poll?
You're not going to cover that poll, are you?
Do you know who's in the field...
JR Ball: Brother, can you spare $2 million for poor Baton Rouge?
The outrage was almost immediate. Baton Rouge and its city-parish government, with an annual budget just shy of $1 billion, can’t find a spare...
Riegel: Making sense of the MovEBR management contracts
I am still struggling to understand how the city-parish and its two program management teams of 16 engineering and consulting firms—that’s right, 16—will efficiently...
Publisher: Take a single step forward on Florida Boulevard
It was sad reading our recent cover story (“No man’s land,” May 21) on the demise of Florida Boulevard. I participated with the Regional/Urban...
Alford: Storylines for the Louisiana governor’s race
The inaugural campaign of Gov. John Bel Edwards dished up a full course of lessons for Louisiana.
We found out that personality politics can...
JR Ball: Baton Rouge keeps wasting its enormous potential
As someone who grew up somewhere other than here, it’s forever amazing to me how Baton Rouge—a natural resource rich capital city with the...
Riegel: One small step for a north Baton Rouge community
In a recent column, I questioned why Louisiana, in general, and Baton Rouge, in particular, are so mired in the problems of the past...
Publisher: Dealing with change and neighborhoods
You may have read about the battle brewing in cities, including here in Spanish Town, over regulations relating to Airbnb. While this concept of...
Alford: They said it (regular session edition)
We should have known during the first week of April, that this was going to be a different kind of regular session.
All of the...
JR Ball: Living life in our Louisiana welfare state
It should come as a surprise to exactly no one that few states dole out more financial incentives in the name of economic development...
Riegel: Louisiana stays stuck in the problems of the past
On the same day that U.S. News and World Report issued its annual list of the Best States, ranking Louisiana dead last for the...
Publisher: Rankings bad news for Gov. John Bel Edwards
U.S. News & World Report is a “recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings.” Three years ago, about...
Alford: The trumping of Louisiana
President Donald Trump's promise of new I-10 bridge sort of stole the show when he visited Lake Charles last week. But several other stories,...
JR Ball: A golf clap for BREC
Anyone who even occasionally glances at this column knows I have something of an issue about the number of golf courses BREC operates in...
Riegel: Inefficiencies of the Baton Rouge entrepreneurial ecosystem
At first glance, a recent study by Emergent Method on the status of Baton Rouge’s entrepreneurial ecosystem could be relegated to the category of...
Publisher: Thank you, Joe Alleva
Joe Alleva and his wife, Annie, joined the LSU family on April 4, 2008. As athletic director, Alleva was in charge of 21 sports...
Alford: Session offering up plenty of distractions
If there’s anything senators like discussing more than politics, it’s themselves, which was evident last week when the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee debated...
Alford: Running on one ticket
It has been nearly a year since I was sitting across from Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, interviewing him for an online video episode of...
JR Ball: Yo, state legislators, stay out of Baton Rouge’s business
Fortunately, state Sen. Bodi White came to his legislative senses long enough to declare one of the most ridiculous bills ever authored in our...
