B.R.’s economic giant
From home care to hospitals, health care is big money for the city’s economy.
Should voters have the option to decide term limits for school board members?
Issue: April 21, 2009
Is there a message here?
Recently Parade magazine ran their annual report on "What people earn". The results -- which showed baseball players making $34 million a year, supermodels who earned $4.5 million and social workers and pastors earning less than $46,000 a year -- can be disturbing. Is this just the free market at work? Plus: recent story, Tea Party coverage less than objective and sad news of Lloyd Lindsey's death.
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April 21, 2009 issue
Trends good and bad
One of the trends noted from the annual Trends in Real Estate seminar was the significant downturn in the residential market.
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Policy play
The state’s budget—and its $2 billion deficit—takes center stage when the Legislature convenes its regular session on April 27.
Eye spy
A federal investigation into New Orleans’ troubled crime camera program could spread to Baton Rouge.
Mudslinging in the media
One of the most hotly contested—and expensive—state Senate races in recent memory is finally over.
Team effort
Participation loans are nothing new, but it might be the only way for a deal of any size to be done in today’s economic climate.
10 questions: Glenn Morris
The former vice chancellor of LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center returns to the classroom just ahead of the budget problems.
The fight over Twin Oaks
A couple battles a bank, the courts and the clock for the historic Prairieville home of poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren.
Taxing the ol’ homestead
An effort to double the state's homestead exemption will once again go before the Legislature. This time, it's picking up support, because of property reassessments in metro Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette. But the best alternative may be more, not fewer voters paying property taxes.
LSU must change its flag
LSU has done a masterful job in warning the public about the danger of making massive budget cuts to the school. But the school needs to build a knowledge based economy outside the campus gates and embrace its responsibility.
Letters
April 21, 2009 issue
Company news
April 21, 2009 issue
Permits
April 21, 2009 issue
Moving up
April 21, 2009 issue
Entrepreneur: Eric Lewis, Isaiah Marshall, James Gilmore Jr., Anita Tillman
Less than six months ago, James Gilmore Jr. was the president of Bayard Research Group, Eric Lewis was the president of Ephod Business Solutions, Isaiah Marshall was the president of Faith Service Inc., and Anita Tillman was the president of Tillman Consulting Group.
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