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Louisiana named ‘State of the Year’Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:56PMSeveral Louisiana communities also earned SB&D honors. New Orleans tied Charlotte, N.C., for Major Market of the Year; Lake Charles won the Mid-Market of the Year honor; and St. James Parish drew a Special Recognition award from the magazine as the parish or county within a metro area that generated the most impressive job-creation results across the South. The Nucor Corp. steel mill project in ...

Jay Walljasper: Why Biking Is More Patriotic Than Flag WavingSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:57AMSo how do we get more Americans to bike? The biggest obstacle right now is that people see bicyclists as an exotic species -- macho, ultra-fit, almost entirely young, white and male, clad in Lycra or spandex, who ride like madmen all over city streets.

Some critical of outgoing sheriffs spending, managementSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 4:07AMTerrebonne Parish Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois works at his desk July 1 in Houma.

Should the NBA change its draft rules?Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 2:07AMJohn Wall electrified college basketball for one season, but the Rivals.com experts agree the NBA s rules need...

Tompkins: The tragic use of outdoors as a wastebasketSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:57PMWhy do so many people treat the outdoors — beaches, rivers, lakes, bays, forests, fields — like one giant trash can?