Latest missives for the Baton Rouge Business Report

I am up and running in Louisiana as a full-time, bona fide journalist (health benefits still TK, but god forbid I want some bureaucrat telling me what to do). This go-round, here's what I concocted:

• A report on hiring trends in the Capital Region titled Hitting the bricks, in which one homecoming job transplant says: "I was ready to get back. To tell you the truth, I missed the heat."
  
• A survey of social networking in the real estate biz titled Not the hard sell, in which one agent describes the ebbs and flows of selling online, saying she gets 1,000 hits or more for a Youtube video of her broken elbow, but "then I post a nice real estate tip and get 50 hits."
• A look at the "cultural economy" initiative in Louisiana from a dollars-and-cents perspective (I didn't even mention music!) titled Planting the seeds, in which a gallery owner and arts booster says: "We really aren’t a secondary sector. We see ourselves as an economic engine for the state of Louisiana."

I worked hard on all this -- so if you find a typo, my editor did it.

And seriously, what is up with this asinine GOP ranting about "bureaucrats in Washington" telling me what health care I can get? Don't they know the bureaucrats who tell me what health care I can get now are incorporated outside of D.C.? To wit.