- The latest Jefferson Parish Council proposal to reform contracting procedures "makes some welcome changes (but) it is problematic in several respects and fails to meaningfully address a fundamental weakness: the council's extraordinary discretion over contract selections." So says the non-profit Bureau of Governmental Research.
- At slabbed.org, Doug Handshoe reflects and comments on the Aaron Broussard sentencing. "The public intuitively knows Broussard lived a life of crime, thus the anger at the relative slap on the wrist he received," Handshoe says.