Economics in the News

Scalping Superbowl Tickets

Ticket profiteers come in all shapes, income sizes: Deals sealed in box suites as well as streets 01/31/02

By Jeffrey Meitrodt, Staff writer/The Times-Picayune

A Higher Minimum Wage for Orleans?

$6.15 - Raising minimum wage: yes or no, 1-6-02, Stewart Yerton, Business writer/The Times-Picayune.

Price Caps for Entergy’s Sales in the Wholesale Electricity Market

Entergy price caps examined: Some fear order could raise rates, 11-24-01, John M. Biers, Energy writer/The Times-Picayune.

Louisiana's River Pilots' Monopoly

Times-Picayune Special Report Series on River Pilots in Louisiana, 11-4-01 to 11-7-01.

Letter to the Editor on River Pilots, 11-14-02

Protecting Crawfish Producers Hurts Crawfish Consumers

Feds eye tariffs on mudbugs, Kristen Meyer, State News Service, Washington, Daily Comet, Page one, 6-18-01.

Gasoline Prices Fall as Result of Increased Supplies

Gas prices fall in time for travel season, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, By SARA BONGIORNI, Advocate business writer, 6-21-01.

Military personnel supply and opportunity cost

Raises help military retain, recruit more October 6, 1999, in the San Jose Mercury News

Claritin's Patent War with FDA:

"Claritin patent at center of battle," Bill Walsh, Washington bureau of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Copyrighted.

Fishing Quotas for the Gulf?

Fishing Quota Debated, by Carl Husle, NYTRNG Washington Bureau, in the Daily Comet, Thibodaux, LA, 7/11/2000, pA1.

Hitting Polluters in the Pocketbook

Refiners to pay fines, cut down emissions: Belle Chasse plant part of deal with U.S. New Orleans Times-Picayune p. C-1,3 (7/26/00), From staff and wire reports.

Is DEQ doing its job?

Louisiana: Polluter's Paradise, a series by Louisiana's New York Times Regional Papers on the job Louisiana's DEQ is doing enforcing environmental laws.

Unwelcome neighbors: Environmental racism in Louisiana

Unwelcome neighbors, a series on environmental racism in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Golf Club Hits Pig Farm: Who's Right?

Florida Golf Development Sues Pig Farm Over Smell and Music

Doctors to form Union:

"Uniting L.A.'s wounded healers," July, 1998, LACMA Physician, Magazine of the Los Angeles Medical Association. Story by Greg Goth. Copyrighted
"Union plans $1M drive to organize physicians," Los Angeles Times March 2, 1999. Story by Sharon Bernstein, Nancy Cleeland, and Nicholas Riccardi. Copyrighted
"AMA backs formation of union," June 24, 1999, Associated Press. Story by Brenda Coleman. Copyrighted

The Price of Rice

Rice bounty is bittersweet, Mark Waller, Staff Writer, 9/2/99 New Orleans Times-Picayune, p. A-1. See Dr. Coats for graphics that accompany article. Copyrighted.

Online Kidney Auction Stopped Associated Press, 9/2/99, eBay puts stop to illeagal auction on a human kidney, but the price hit $5.7 million before eBay could stop it.

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