What election day 2012 means to business The French have an expression: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. That may well be the most accurate description of the outcome of the ...
‘Cooling out’ the voters Confidence men know that their victim -- “the mark” as he has been called -- is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediatel...
Mitt for president You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
Libya and lies It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was “offended” by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this...
Where candidates stand on farm issues Ahead of the upcoming election, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney spelled out their positions on agriculture issues for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
In a questionnai...
Move over Saudi Arabia Throughout my 40 years representing the business community—first with the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and then with LABI—I have been a student of energy issues and energy economics. I was...
We recommend Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
Who’s on first? There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (les...
Study falsely challenges safety of biotechnology The French philosopher Voltaire famously said, “Common sense is not so common.” Activists trying to disprove the safety of agriculture biotechnology seem devoted to proving his witticism.
Another s...
How Louisiana’s tax climate stacks up nationally The Tax Foundation has released its 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index. It ranks Louisiana in the bottom half of states at 32nd (the lower the number, the better the score in this index). The Ta...
Phony in chief When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy admonishing the rest of us to be “civil” in our discussions of political issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations and...
Tax incentives important to ag BATON ROUGE—The quarter century from 1980 to the mid-2000s were not a good time for Louisiana’s dairy industry as a whole.
According to Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Stra...
