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This is the introduction for the Inside Report columnist section.
State government’s personnel agency continues to run television spots trying to woo people to work for Louisiana. The message: It’s a great place to work, and there are lots of job opportunities out there.
Imagine a school that provides not only after-school programs, but services for parents. Imagine a school that’s open on weekends and year-round for special programs for the community.
The Ascension Parish School Board broke ground in October on what will become Sorrento Primary School in early 2011. It was a proud moment for Sorrento Mayor Blake LeBlanc. Sorrento students have been bused out of town to schools in St. Amant since The Sorrento School, the last public school in the town limits, closed in the 1930s.
Ascension Parish government is employing a really interesting tack to develop a new comprehensive development plan.
Tangipahoa Parish taxpayers soon will face a dilemma on how to pay for more beds in the parish jailhouse in Amite. Like its neighboring parishes, Tangipahoa Parish has had a jail crowding problem for many years.
The messages on T-shirts hung on a clothesline at a recent domestic violence rally at LSU spoke volumes about an issue many people in the community care not to talk about.
Louisiana public schools face arguably their biggest challenge in the next few years. One is to boost the high school graduation rate to 80 percent, up from 66.6 percent now. The other is to raise school performance scores to 120, up from 91.
A couple of weeks ago, Mayor-President Kip Holden was so offended by critical coverage of his upcoming bond proposal that he petulantly took a copy of The Advocate and threw it on the floor in front of a civic group.
Mayor-President Kip Holden was upbeat about the prospects of voters approving a $901 million capital improvements bond issue when he spoke recently to the Press Club of Baton Rouge.
There’s only so much money to go around. Whether it’s a family trying to stay on a budget or a governmental agency with financial constraints, taxpayers and agencies that spend tax dollars should spend only what they have or can afford.
Is Louisiana actually too educated for its own good? That’s a question almost no one would ask in a state that ranks in the low 40s in most performance and education measures.
Just days after a story ran in The Advocate about how health problems drove her to poverty, Angelia Foster’s phone was ringing with people calling to address her needs.
There’s just a month to go before a Nov. 14 election on a major Baton Rouge bond issue. Backers of Mayor-President Kip Holden’s bond issue are mobilizing to sway the tax-averse electorate of Baton Rouge.
The pace of coastal restoration and protection should and can move faster to meet the urgent need of Louisiana’s eroding coast, speakers told the Oct. 6 meeting of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration and Conservation.
Rebekah Smith doesn’t want there to be any question about how she feels about her husband. “I am so very proud of him,” she said.
About the only time that state policymakers talk about high school students earning early college credit is when Louisiana shows up near the bottom of another ranking. It happened again last week.
A visionary proposal for an iconic structure to exemplify both a community as a special place, and state-of-the-art technology. An outcry against public spending for such a frivolous expenditure. Much angst and pain before the building is built.
“The Little Engine That Could” just might help Louisiana children excel in kindergarten. The book is the first one delivered to children up to age 5 who are part of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program.
