Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
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"Louisiana lawmaking at its most inept"
JUN 9 Columnist James Gill puts in his two cents (OK, more like two bucks) on the bill signed last week by Gov. Jindal which was aimed at shielding Big Oil from the environmental lawsuits. Jindal's justification was "simply nonsense," Gill writes. Perhaps the time has come to seriously discuss settlement, he opines.
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LA Times: Bobby does his buddies a solid
JUN 9 Here's a column in the Los Angeles Times about Bobby Jindal's signing of the Big Oil protection bill. Columnist Michael Hiltzick characterizes it as a "huge favor," and has collected here the high points (all pretty low, actually) of the process that led to the signature. Jindal has certainly learned "where his campaign bread is buttered," Hiltzick says.
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JUN 9 Blogger CB Forgotston was just trying to help. When he noticed that Bobby Jindal's new press secretary had misspelled the name of one of Jindal's lackeys, uh, legislative acquaintances, he shot her an email about it. But she didn't reply or even correct the error, CB says. (Maybe Quin Hillyer was unavailable to hold her hand through the ordeal?)
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Aswell: More stinky hospital shenanigans
JUN 9 Blogger Tom Aswell is examining a lawsuit filed over the Jindal administration's closing of a public hospital in central Louisiana. The suit alleges several violations of state law, Aswell tells us. At the very least, the lawsuit could open up this situation to scrutiny. That would be interesting, wouldn't it?
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JUN 9 Here's blogger Bob Mann's take on blogger Lamar White Jr's extremely detailed post last week about the bill that Gov. Jindal signed to quash the levee board suit against Big Oil. If you haven't read Lamar's post yet, you need to. Really.
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NOLA's homelessness back to pre-Katrina level
JUN 9 After almost nine years since the storm (unbelievable, right?) the level of homelessness in New Orleans is back to the level it was before Katrina, the NOLA Defender blog tells us in this post. The number of homeless is nothing to celebrate, but drawing down the high level after the storm is an accomplishment, Martha Kegel writes.
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Ian on the (alleged) LSU-ULL rivalry
JUN 9 Blogger Ian McGibboney writes about the alleged rivalry between UL-L and LSU. As he points out, the rivalry is not real on a large scale, but mostly exists between a small cadre of fans from each school. For those people, it's about the name, he says.
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DeBerry on the hypocrisy of anti-govt types
JUN 9 How is it that the guys who yell the loudest about government are often the same guys who fill their pockets with government cash? Columnist Jarvis DeBerry ponders the mystery in this post.