John Bel Edwards Is Doomed To Be Forgotten
Last Thursday, I spent the second hour of the Moon Griffon Show in the studio, mostly talking with Moon about the special sessions and who was really to blame over the failure to produce a budget...
View ArticleAPPEL: Governor Edwards’“Blame The Last Guy” Game
Just like his Party’s last president, our governor loves to blame everything on his predecessor. While I may agree that there were failings during the time of Governor Jindal, his greatest legacy may...
View ArticleAPPEL: A Traveling Governor And Louisiana’s Economic Wins
One of the great failings of Governor Bobby Jindal was his failure to travel with the goal of corporate recruitment for the state. Governor Jindal had, at least in his early years, a sort of star power...
View ArticleTom Price Out At HHS, With Rumors Jindal Could Get The Job
Amid a growing controversy over the use of private, chartered flights for government business (and a resulting bill on the taxpayers), former Congressman Tom Price has resigned as the Secretary of...
View ArticleSADOW: Times, Attitudes Change About NOLA Convention Center’s Hoard
Funny how times change. An example – the former screaming opposition to any changes over the dedicated tax for New Orleans’ convention center has now become lamentation over not enough change. And from...
View ArticleKennedy Is Joining Landry As Co-Chair Of LCCM In Time For This Fall’s Elections
Here’s a story with a lot more significance to Louisiana politics, and particularly to the elections taking place in the fall, than it would originally appear to the naked eye… U.S. Sen. John Kennedy...
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A Note To Stephanie Grace: Bobby Jindal Isn’t Running This Year
Maybe we should call her Stephanie “Bad Penny” Grace, since for the poor people of New Orleans who thought they were rid of her when she was fired by the Times-Picayune she keeps turning back up. The...
View ArticleAPPEL: Should John Bel Edwards Bear Some Blame For Louisiana’s Stagnant...
To say the least yesterday’s release of LEAP test results was disappointing. It’s been ten years since, at the state policy level, Louisiana implemented some of the strongest education reforms in the...
View ArticleSADOW: Contrary To The TV Ads, Data Show Jindal’s Economy Beats Edwards’
If Louisiana’s Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards has any hope of winning reelection, he’ll need a lazy and incurious mainstream media to parrot his misleading campaign theme. That theme, as disgorged...
View ArticleSADOW: Jindal’s Economy Beats Edwards’, Redux
Welcome to the party, where we’re popping the overinflated balloon that is the campaign narrative of Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards. Last week, appearing here was a comparative analysis of Louisiana’s...
View ArticleAPPEL: Is Hatred Of Bobby Jindal Really A Good Re-Election Strategy For John...
Is it possible that in just eight short years the people of Louisiana have made a spectacular about face on their principles? Is it possible that in the time of Trump, Louisiana people reject his...
View ArticleAPPEL: Some Good Education News That Isn’t Helpful To John Bel Edwards
Just two weeks before an election that may mark the end of failed leadership that has resulted in abysmal results, and the news couldn’t be worse for John Bel Edwards. Yesterday the Superintendent of...
View ArticleRemember When JBE Said Louisiana’s Economy Was The Best In The South? About...
…it’s a claim that didn’t age particularly well, given the revisions to the GDP numbers the Bureau of Economic Analysis released last week. Those revisions don’t particularly support Gov. John Bel...
View ArticleSADOW: John White’s Impressive Louisiana Education Legacy
Louisiana looks set to lose a key actor in its struggle to provide a quality education to its children. State Superintendent of Education John White will resign after just over eight years on the job....
View ArticleSADOW: On Fifteen Years Of Blogging About Louisiana Politics
I’m not going to say that the time has flown by, but something should be said now that my blog Between the Lines, mirrored at The Hayride, has surpassed its 15th birthday. That makes it the oldest blog...
View ArticleAPPEL: Schools That Don’t Work Are Impediments To Louisiana’s Success
Ask any politician. Ask any citizen. Ask any parent. Since it is a given that we are last in almost all measures of social and economic success, what is the one thing that will change Louisiana for the...
View ArticleNow Bobby Jindal Weighs In On The Trump/Trumpism Question
Boy, there sure are a lot of Republican politicians in poor odor with the voting public who want to opine about the future of the party nowadays, no? The latest is Bobby Jindal, the former Louisiana...
View ArticleAPPEL: Louisiana’s Leadership Deficit Is Rooted In A Lack Of Vision
For a long time, I have written about the negative impact that visionless leadership has imposed on our state. We have long known that despite our invaluable assets we remain mired in last place or...
View ArticleAPPEL: Bad Leadership, Louisiana’s Lost Decade, And A Shot At Revival
Louisiana, with all of its innate assets has suffered a lost decade. Ten years of really bad leadership has resulted in an accelerating backward slide even as the rest of the South has blossomed. If we...
View ArticleAPPEL: Don’t Forget About The Post-Katrina Budget Crash
How soon we forget. After Hurricane Katrina, a populist Democrat governor and a willing Legislature got the news from the state fiscal folks that Louisiana was flush with cash. They then went on a...
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