Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
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NAGIN WASN'T MASTERMIND, HE'S TOO INCOMPETENT
JUL 11 Columnist Clancy DuBos offers former NOLA Mayor Ray Nagin a back-handed compliment in this post. The federal judge who sentenced Nagin said she departed from the guidelines because he wasn't the mastermind of this scheme - and DuBos agrees. Nagin's "painfully inept performance as mayor" is proof he couldn't put together a "one-car funeral," let alone a criminal conspiracy, DuBos writes.
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GILL HAS SOME ADVICE FOR MCALLISTER
JUL 11 Columnist James Gill is handing out advice to Congressman Kissingher in this post: Drop the family values schtick. McAllister's decision to run again, despite the embarrassing appearance he made in a fuzzy surveillance video, is going to make for an interesting campaign, Gill opines.
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PIC: BOBBY AIN'T BUYING WHAT WHITE'S SELLING
JUL 11 Oh, to be a fly on the wall. If the current strife between the governor and his hand-picked state superintendent of education is actually real (jury's still out) then the upcoming meeting between the two over Common Core should be very interesting. This editorial from the Picayune signals that the paper is buying the story.
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ELLIOTT'S TAKE ON THE NAGIN SENTENCING
JUL 11 Blogger Elliott Stonecipher analyzes the aftermath of former NOLA Mayor Ray Nagin's sentencing this week on corruption charges. Elliott's remembering another aftermath, that of Katrina, as well as the history of Louisiana corruption, and Nagin's place in it.
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MCCOLLISTER'S MIFFED AT MCALLISTER AND EWE
JUL 11 This post on Baton Rouge Business Report by Rolfe McCollister is a little pompous, no lie. He's complaining about how horrible it is that Edwin Edwards and Vance McAllister are putting their families through the "humiliation" of a Congressional campaign, within the context of the Louisiana political landscape. Just wait until the governor's race.
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BROWN: KILLING NOLA OVER AND OVER
JUL 11 Jim Brown is blogging about "the Queen City of the South" in this week's post, looking at the murder and crime rates in New Orleans. He's not just talking about the shootings, either: a relative of his recently was the victim of the so-called knockout "game" near Canal Street, he says.
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ASWELL TELLS INSURANCE HORROR STORY
JUL 11 Blogger Tom Aswell tells us about a homeowner's nightmare of an insurance claim in this post. The racist comment was probably the least horrible thing that happened to this poor guy during the process.
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GUSMAN WANTS MONEY FOR MENTALLY ILL
JUL 11 Orleans Sheriff Marlin Gusman is looking for more millions of dollars from the city to house mentally ill inmates, The Lens reports here. Right now, things don't look that good for a successful resolution to the conflict between the sheriff and the city over who is going to pay the bills to improve Gusman's jail.