Constitutional limits are leading to creativity designed to grant tax breaks in a year that restricts them.Legislators agreed to a number of tax breaks last year and flirted with eliminating the state income … Continue reading →

Gov. Bobby Jindal says this state needs solutions unique to Louisiana to successfully revamp the way public schools teach 700,000 or so students.“Equal opportunity in education is a core underlying value we … Continue reading →

Internet blogger C.B. Forgotston spent several minutes of his appearance on “The Jim Engster Show” Thursday complaining about a Jindal deputy criticizing Michael Walker-Jones, of the Louisiana Association of Educators.Trying to explain how … Continue reading →

What is one sentiment that Abraham Lincoln and Adolph Hitler shared?Both leaders complained that much of their time was taken in dealing with people seeking work in their governments.Supporters seeking … Continue reading →

They’re rolling in from across the state Monday to begin what U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has called a “brave new world” of a Louisiana run by Republicans.Gov. Bobby Jindal and the other … Continue reading →

State Sen. Yvonne Dorsey last week told Gov. Bobby Jindal that as a child she could see the State Capitol every morning as she rolled out of her house in the Easy Town neighborhood and headed off to … Continue reading →

Prior to a recent hearing, Commissioner of Administration Paul Rainwater stood in the hallway talking with other Jindal administration aides.Predictably enough, as when wherever bureaucrats congregate, their overheard conversation turned to how the news media picked … Continue reading →

Gov. Bobby Jindal signed the last of the bills from the 2011 regular legislative session last week, marking the official end of the season.It’s like the day after Thanksgiving, when all that Pilgrim stuff can … Continue reading →

Though he faces no well-known challenger, gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal has already deployed troops to distribute door hangers throughout several Baton Rouge neighborhoods.All the politicians do it and all their political handouts are similar: Virtues extolled. … Continue reading →

This time last year, elected officials were predicting the raft of state was rapidly approaching a fiscal waterfall.That doom was somewhat averted for Fiscal Year 2012, which began Friday and will continue until June 30, … Continue reading →

Remember the old saw about it’s best not to see how sausages and laws are made?Like car wrecks on the interstate and Hollywood ingénues in court, averting the eyes sometimes is just not an option. One … Continue reading →