Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce
BP’s public-relations disaster deepens as its own industry turns on the oil giant.
It was inevitable that BP would be made the pariah, not by the public and the politicians — that happened within weeks of the Deepwater Horizon explosion...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce
Seeking no-good SOBs for a thankless job
Using the term “qualifying” for registering to run for political office is kind of like using the word “practice” for careers in medicine, accounting and law. We’d like to believe our doctors, accountants and lawyers are done practicing when they get their licenses, and we’d like to think that candidates are qualified when they qualify. Clearly that’s not always the case, be it police jury or president...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce
Uncle Sam helps the Legislature polish its fiscal mettle.
Let me throw a number at you: One billion, eight hundred sixty-six million, five hundred eighty-nine thousand, six hundred and fifty-one. It looks really big when you write it out. That’s $1,866,589,651, or, rounding up and abbreviating, $1.9 billion...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce
In the waning days of the session, what goes around comes around.
Politics is good when it achieves solutions, better when it rights a wrong and best when it provides grist...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce
Public school bus drivers prove the power of privilege at the state Capitol.
Of a kind with chickens and eggs, it is unclear to me if my fascination with data like lists of lobbyists registered to do business at the state Capitol is born of being in the newspaper business, or whether I’m in the this business because I get pleasure from such lists...
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