Wednesday, September 22, 2010Written by The Independent StaffC'EST BON State Superintendent Paul Pastorek's positive job-performance evaluation last week from the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education was welcome news.PAS BON Is there a disconnect ...
Wednesday, September, 15, 2010C'EST BONSchool board candidate Greg Davis has an uphill climb to win the seat in District 2.PAS BONMeanwhile, back at reality, Louisiana ranks a dismal 47th out of 51 (the District of Columbia leapfrogged us) in the latest ...
Wednesday, September, 8, 2010Written by The Independent StaffC'EST BON Hey, we're all for government regulators passing a good time, but not with the companies they're supposed to be regulating.PAS BON The dire predictions of economic doom resulting from ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010Written by The Independent Weekly C'EST BONWhen a bipartisan think tank, summoned by President Barack Obama...PAS BONNow that 3rd Congressional District hopefuls Hunt Downer and Jeff Landry are in a runoff, expect a sling-off ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010Written by The Independent StaffC'est Bon Baton Rouge daily The Advocate was the sole newspaper honored last week with the national Sunshine Award by The Society of Professional Journalists.PAS BON The circumstances surrounding ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010Written by The Independent Staff C'EST BON Opelousas attorney Patrick Morrow made a good case before a panel of federal judges in Boise, Idaho...PAS BON Some government and industry people are insisting that upwards of 75 percent ...
C'EST BON The 15th Judicial District's Drug Court program works, and now there's a long-term study to prove it.PAS BON The avaricious among us never met a disaster they didn't see as an opportunity for fraud, and the BP oil spill is bringing the shysters ...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010Written by The Independent Weekly StaffC'EST BON It's premature to proclaim we've dodged a bullet - the bullet being the millions of gallons of crude oil from the BP spill that haven't invaded our marshes and Gulf Coast beaches...PAS ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010Written by The Independent StaffC'EST BON When Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a law allowing people to carry concealed handguns - presumably it's handguns, rifles are hard to conceal...PAS BON Could we just set Louisiana's Republican ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010Written by The Independent Staff C'EST BONIt was probably no skin off Cajundome Director Greg Davis' back... PAS BONWhen qualifying ended July 9, it was a pleasant surprise... COUILLONMaybe U.S. Sen. David Vitter gave credence ...
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 ...
