- Gambit editor Clancy DuBos reflects on the nullification of the Crescent City Connection referendum and the collapse of the River Birch Inc. investigation. "In a sense, both stories were about tolls," he writes.
- Doug Handshoe says he's been pretty speechless since learning the federal government was dropping the River Birch case. Still, Handshoe manages at slabbed.org to opine at length on the topic, concluding that landfill company co-owner Fred Heebe "knew his opponents better than they knew themselves. At the end of the day it was the key to victory."