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This is the introduction for the Inside Report columnist section.
The narration begins by setting the scene — “where poverty and joblessness have plagued generations … where small poor communities are desperately trying to hold onto their best young people.”
For months, Livingston Parish officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have sparred over proposed new flood maps. The issue, which could affect many landowners, may be nearing a decision, and it appears that parish government may have its back to the ropes with a left hook on the way.
When one is in love, the air is sweeter and colors are brighter and life is more worth living. It’s kind of like being in the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Early last month, David Roth, owner of David Roth Wrecker Services in Plaquemine, was called to the scene of a wreck to pick up a car involved in a collision with an Iberville Parish school bus.
Baker native and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Keith Beauchamp has followed the trail of numerous unsolved racial killings in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, and in turn helped to bring national attention to these cases through his documentaries, films and community forums.
Financial pinches are hurting the two public school systems in the Felicianas, and the pain could become quite acute as the school year moves along. The West Feliciana system’s budget for this school year projects a $1.27 million operating deficit in the general fund, but Finance Director Helen “Ruthie” Davis recently said she hopes to whittle away at the gap during the remainder of the year.
As Census 2010 approaches, there has been much talk in Lafayette about how the decennial population count might affect the area’s representation in Congress and the Legislature when district lines are redrawn. Less in the forefront has been what could be a major realignment of some Lafayette City-Parish Council districts to balance out the population explosion in the southern part of the parish over the past 10 years.
An appellate court panel soon will decide more than the question of whether a small group of Robert Allen Stanford’s innocent investors is required to surrender its remaining assets to more than 25,000 others in Louisiana and around the globe.
After decades at the highest levels of higher education policy in America, maybe John V. Lombardi has earned the right to a bit of irritation about the experts “who come out of the woodwork” and freely advise how to correctthe problems of the system during a time of crisis.
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.
