At least for now, Gov. Bobby Jindal is staking his legacy on schools. The local Recovery School Distirct was designed to help pull up New Orleans schools, but turns out the model could have a broader reach. As Bobby Jindal announces intentions to expand vouchers and open enrollment statewide, it seems the fact that one-time RSD Superintendent John White became the state ed head is not a coincidence. The local program that favors vouchers and open enrollment is among the policy planks of Jindal's second term education agendy. And, by the way, it's apparently Schools Choice Week. Sunday Coverage here and here.

Tonight, he'll dance at a black tie ball. Tomrorow, he'll be serenaded by Deacon John and flown over by really impressive jets. And, if he's lucky, a few people might even get their minds out of the football long enough to pay attention. At a midday Monday ceremony at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rogue, Bobby Jindal will be inaugurated into his second term as governor. The 40-year-old spent the run-up to the Big Day like any other guy: betting on football and talking up his friends. Jindal is ceding most of the festivaling to New Orleans and the BCS Championship, but at least that means Edwin Edwards won't be there to upstage him. AP has details on all the pomp.

It's a New Year, and a new campaign train for Bobby Jindal. With his inauguration set to be upstaged by football next Monday, the gov is starting the New Year off in a familiar place: out of the state. Apparently not bothered by the frigid temps or the Texas governor's stump session a few dozen debates ago, Jindal is in Iowa taking to his own stump for his chosen presidential candidate of the moment, Rick Perry. With it being too cold to roll up his sleeves, what will our governor use to get people out to the caucuses?

In 2011, a lot of the old maxims about New Orleans' resistance to change got thrown out the window. From Freret Street to Mayor Mitch's office to the Krewe of Chewbacchus, the City showed us that changing with the times, if not desired, is at the very least inevitable and therefore necessary. Waters around us have grown and all that. To be sure, many of the old vanguards of the city will live on past this period. But there are a few who came later that didn't live up to the hype. That doesn't mean they won't be back around again. As EWE taught us, you can always come back and marry someone who makes you look good. So, without further rambling, here's a list of who's in and who's out in 2011, and what to look out for in 2012.

Silicon Bayou News turns in our weekly roundup of developments at the intersection of technology and commerce.

Governor Jindal Declares November 11th-18th Louisiana Entrepreneurship Week: Governor Bobby Jindal has officially declared November 11th – November 18th to be Louisiana Entrepreneurship Week to coincide with Baton Rouge and Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Tales of Turtle Trawler Terror seem to have worked themselves up the feds' food chain. Whether prompted by a lawsuit from environmentalists or a call from the AP, NOAA stopped looking for the missing oil long enough to release inspection data from Gulf shrimping boats that reveals whether or not fishermen are complying the federal regulations that require protecting sea turtles. The numbers reveal about 10 percent of trawlers did not have devices that give turtles an escape route if they get caught in the crusteacean cruisers' nets. NOAA reports about 500 turtles have washed up on Gulf Coast beaches so far this year.

The uncertainty and nastyass-ness of the campaign has now moved to the cold, hard reality of the vote tally. The results of yesterday's elections are in. After Republican slugfests on the statewide ballot, there will be little change coming to Baton Rogue in January. In local races, vacancies and redistricting meant we would have to bid farewell to old faces. Read how it all panned out after the jump.

It's official: The state Democratic Party won't field any statewide candidates this year. Still, poll numbers showed they had at least a chance. Are party brass starting to believe their own bad press?

The summer's alternatives offered by state Republicans and bad vibes from the feds didn't convince Gov. Bobby Jindal and the powers that be to change plans the size of the state's Charity Hospital replacement, but the snafus did apparently point them in the direction of a cheaper hospital. The state's consultants unfurled plans this week for a $1.008 billion hospital on the somewhat cleared Lower Mid-City plot, with construction costs down about $82 million from the originally-planned $1.2 billion megahospital.

With EWE seemingly stuck with his felony conviction for this year's cycle, Bobby Jindal appeared to be breezing through to an easy election night, and an extended stay at the big house in Red Stick. But a poll released today indicates one of Jindal's old opponents might smell blood in the water. Jefferson Parish businessman (yet one-time New Orleans mayoral candidate), John Georges, was shown beating Jindal by one point in one section of a survey conducted by state pollster, Verne Kennedy.