The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate
2026 Legislative Session Public Safety and Criminal Justice Overview
With just weeks until the legislative session begins, the nearly 200 prefiled bills and the spotlight of [...]
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Education Freedom Opponents Keep Recycling Tired Old Arguments
A recent article in The Advocate and nola.com cast doubt on whether the new LA GATOR Scholarship Program [...]
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Times-Picayune Letter to the Editor: Louisiana is Already Squeezing Taxpayers Enough
Edward Ashworth and Andrew Muhl argue in favor of increasing the state's cigarette tax, and the authors [...]
Read moreCommentary: Employment Numbers a Mirage, Emphasize Need for Fiscal Reform
As you may have seen in the news, the U.S. economy added just over 431,000 jobs in May. Unfortunately, [...]
Read moreCommentary: Innovative Hurricane Prevention Measures Merit Consideration
As described in the Times-Picayune, a delegation of Dutch and American architects and urban planners [...]
Read moreWall Street Not the Only Place for Taxpayer-Funded Bonuses
Bonuses are in the news again, but this time the focus is on the government. The Times Picayune quotes a [...]
Read moreCommentary: Road Home Grant Money Going to Waste
The latest example of astonishing wasteful government spending in Post-Katrina New Orleans was described [...]
Read moreDeficits Provide Opportunity to Weed Out Failing Programs
Despite Gov. Jindal’s spending cut in late December, Jan Moller reports in the Times Picayune on a [...]
Read moreHANO: Another Public Agency Failure
The Times-Picayune reports on the mismanagement of another public agency. After FEMA, Fannie Mae and [...]
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