"Strong to the finish".

Popeye's message, "I'm strong to the finish cause I eats me spinich" could be the rallying call for all as the clock on the Louisiana Legislative session, version 2013, moves onward to a close.

Busness news for the day: New Orleans DDD awards awards, Super Bowl host committee ribbon cuts, BGR talks hotel tax, New Orleans tourism starts campaign; Lafayette Chamber focuses upon the Affordable Care Act and more..

Southern Media and Opinion Research (SMOR) has come out with its latest survey on Governor Bobby Jindal (R-La) and Senator Mary Landrieu.  The survey shows Gov. Jindal with an approval rating of 38% while U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) has an approval rating of 56% with just 12% giving her an excellent rating.

Coming this summer, “at a location near you” will be the Affordable Care Act or what has been known as Obamacare.  

Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy is just both inside and outside of state government who are nonplussed over the current state of healthcare in Louisiana.

Mitt Romney has raised an interesting point that could end up a topic of discussion on tonight’s Paul Ryan-Joe Biden’s vice-president debate.

It has become obvious to me that Bobby Jindal sees Louisiana in his rear- view mirror.

That's a real shame. Our state has problems in every direction - crumbling roads and bridges, colleges facing cuts and raising tuition, coastal erosion, threatened LSU teaching hospitals and the worst poverty in the United States. 

The United States Supreme Court has spoken.  As many people thought the personal mandates contained in Obama Care which require all Americans to buy health insurance by 2014 was held unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause.  But the court, through Chief Justice John Roberts, threw everyone back on their heels declaring the mandate constitutional anyway saying the fee is really a tax; and, since the federal government has the power to tax as it sees fit, the personal mandate is constitutional.  Justice Anthony Kennedy, disagreeing with the majority opinion, spoke from the bench saying that the government structured the mandate as a penalty and not a tax.