Wednesday, June 29, 2011Written by The Independent Staff C'EST BONIt was a textbook case of protecting and serving... PAS BONThe kayaker who spotted the body of 29-year-old Cory Sonnier in Lake Martin... COUILLONPity poor Washington. Wednesday ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011Written by The Independent Staff C'EST BONWe'll never know just how critical a role he played... PAS BONWhen Louisiana Family Forum backs a bill, be afraid - be very afraid. COUILLONMaybe the best argument for evolution and ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 C'EST BONEven in defeat, Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, made a compelling case for pushing back against Gov. Bobby Jindal's famed lack of transparency.PAS BONJindal's opacity manifests in many ways. COUILLONOn the same day the ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011C'EST BONThe state House committee tasked with spending Louisiana's money got an extra voice from Lafayette last week when Speaker Jim Tucker named Rep. Rickey Hardy to the House Appropriations Committee. PAS BONLouisiana lawmakers ...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011C'EST BONAttorney Greg Logan has his work cut out for him, if indeed he'll be the laborer cutting hay on his 8 acres of undeveloped land in a residential neighborhood on Alleman Drive off Johnston Street. PAS BON It's debatable ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 C'EST BON We thought that, given enough exposure to any critter, a Cajun would soon learn to make a nice sauce piquant out of it.PAS BON The plot thickens. And darkens.COUILLON The hopes of Louisiana's LGBT community for legislation ...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011C'EST BON State Rep. Rickey Hardy's bill to make affiliates of housing authorities subject to the state's public records law won overwhelming support in the House, which voted 97-0 to strip their exemption from the sunshine law.PAS ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011C'EST BONKudos to Baton Rouge-area newspaper editor and former state Rep. Woody Jenkins for waging a righteous fight for the public's right to know. Jenkins spent 28 years representing his Baton Rouge district in the Legislature ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011C'EST BON A communal effort to plant a fruit orchard in an underprivileged neighborhood in west Lafayette Parish is something we can all sink our teeth into.PAS BON As hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors alike enjoyed ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 C'EST BON Getting deadbeat parents to catch up with their child support payments will be less of a craps shoot beginning May 20. That's when the state's riverboats, racetrack slots and land-based casinos will begin running ...
A budget that counts on private investment could count out completing the Connector any time soon ...
Drago's set to take over the location in August ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...
Six candidates vie for permanent job; no timeline released for selection process ...
