Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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GILL: EVEN BIG OIL THINKS THEY SHOULD DO MORE
JUN 17 Columnist James Gill writes about orphan wells in this post. A recent audit found that the state's Department of Natural Resources has failed to keep up with handling the orphan wells, which causes environmental problems, Gill says. Even Big Oil isn't balking at that - and when they say you're not asking enough of them, it is "time to stop the presses," Gill writes.
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NOT REALLY DARK; JINDAL MORE LIKE INVISIBLE HORSE
JUN 17 Blogger Stephen Sabludowsky takes a look at Bobby Jindal's showing in Iowa this past weekend -- and he's got to take a hard look, because the governor didn't even register in the numbers. The good news, Sabludowsky says, is that he's got no way to go but up!
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AT LEAST THEY COULD FINALLY CUT THEIR HAIR
JUN 17 Can it be true? Is the ratings slide for Duck Dynasty evolving into a death spiral? KEEL takes a look at some recent press on the less-than-stellar performance of the West Monroe "reality" show in this post. Most experts say the dwindling interest is to be expected, but KEEL poll-takers predict it will bounce back.
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ASWELL: AUDIT FINDS MISUSE OF DOE CONTRACT FUNDS
JUN 17 A state education department contractor has been found to have misused state funds, blogger Tom Aswell writes in this post. First there was the school in north Louisiana that was approved to receive vouchers but had no building or teachers (or anything else) and now there's another problem with a related group, he tells us.
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ALFORD: FORGIVENESS A THEME IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS
JUN 17 Jeremy Alford writes about forgiveness in this post on NOLA.com. As things stand today, several candidates could be running with the hope that the people will forgive and forget transgressions - like Vance McAllister, Edwin Edwards and David Vitter, he writes.
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LIKE THE COAST DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS?
JUN 17 It's not enough that the coast itself is eroding; our legislators are eroding funds earmarked to preserve it, blogger CB Forgotston opines in this post. The leges raided $1 billion slated for coastal projects to fill in a $1 billion hole in the budget - and may have to raid more, he says. But really, it's OK, because it's all "theoretical" anyway, right?
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SCALISE ON TAP FOR WHIP POSITION?
JUN 17 Columnist Clancy DuBos takes us down the lane that started with a Congressman ignoring his district and ended with another looking like a shoe-in for the Majority Whip position. Louisiana's Steve Scalise is up for the job, DuBos explains.
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DES MOINES PAPER COVERS JINDAL SPEECH
JUN 17 So Gov. Bobby Jindal was in Iowa this weekend (as he has been and shall be) and was speaking to a group of Republicans about the (alleged) battle on "religious liberty" in 'Murca. Here's the local paper's coverage of the event. What's most interesting is that there's a tee-tiny picture of Jindal on top of this story about his speech - but the big ole photo gallery above starts with images of Rand Paul.