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JUL 20 This post by columnist Jim Beam looks back on his long (almost 50 years, that poor suffering bastard) career covering the Louisiana Legislature. As this year's session wound down, he told someone that he would "hang it up" if Vitter gets in the governor's mansion. Sorry, Jim, but your readers can't allow that.
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JUL 20 This is an amazing Q&A with Karran Harper Royal about New Orleans, Katrina, education and "reform." She doesn't pull any punches, and this covers her history and that of her children in the system, as well as the history of the NOLA system after Katrina - and what's been done to that system and why. It's a must-read for anybody who thinks they know what education reform means.
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MANN: IS VITTER ABUSING FRANKING PRIVILEGE?
JUL 20 Blogger Bob Mann explores David Vitter's recent communications to his constituents, and whether they violate the rules on taxpayer-funded mailings. Are they aimed at voters in the next governor's race? They certainly seem to be - but that's nothing new, is it? And what does Dave say? Who knows -- because his press people wouldn't talk to Bob.
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CURSES! THAT PESKY REALITY ARISES AGAIN!
JUL 20 Just as Bobby Jindal seems to be getting somebody up in Iowa to listen to his message, that dang reality rears its ugly head. Columnist Clancy DuBos writes in this post about how Jindal's "house of cards" budget is about to collapse - just three weeks in to the fiscal year. Dang - that's got to be a record, right?
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KATRINA PAIN INDEX - SOME STUFF NEVER CHANGES
JUL 20 Here's a post on the progressive site Common Dreams about New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina. The city's a lot smaller and a lot whiter now, and rents are so high that nearly 40 percent of renters spend half their income on rent. Dang.
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JUL 20 This post on the Advocate is kind of screwy. It's singing the praises of a plan to use our pine trees as a "new" fuel source. It would help those poor timberland owners who lost their (monogramed Ralph Lauren) shirts when paper mills closed. And listen, burning wood for fuel - that's a new, shiny idea. Huh?
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Jim Beam thinks he might hang it up after 50 years of covering the Legislature - but that ain't gonna work for his readers. Also today, Mann on Vitter, and an amazing Q&A with a NOLA community activist.