As the season of family gatherings, food, and giving winds down, receivers of gifts are assessing which to keep and which to return. For a fortunate few, it’s time to pull out the adding machine to help tabulate just how well they did. One of those will be SUN...
2021 is looking bright for government transparency, as Citizens for a New Louisiana adds a new chapter in Baton Rouge. Having an office at our state’s capitol, and in the literal shadow of the capitol building, will help us to bring you closer to the action when...
In a recent article, we showed you three places where the parish could recover nearly $9 MILLION in revenue for the general fund. Not to be outdone, an author on a local “news” website keeps saying that all of this is fantastic and impossible. These are...
Way back in 1930, Sir Ernest Benn mused that “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” Certainly, bureaucrats are always finding problems; and they always have the same...
The other day we told you about a 7.5% tax increase that the councils would decide about on September 1st, 2020. The reason for this increase is to account for commercial property values substantially decreasing this year. This is especially thanks to the governor...
The group that started the hubbub over in Lafayette Parish is called Citizens for a New Louisiana. And I know the players. And I had been monitoring who’s involved in all of this.