Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Sherman: Louisiana politics a comedy routine
APR 22 Louisiana politics is entertainment, nothing more than a comedy routine that writes itself, blogger Dayne Sherman says. But while we're chuckling at the wizard between the sheets and the kissing congressman, our higher ed system is collapsing, and nobody's doing anything about it, he says.
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APR 23 WalletHub has done a study to determine each state's Return on Investment for its taxpayers. Guess who's bringing up the rear? That's right -- if it weren't for Mississippi and Arkansas we'd be dead last.
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Aswell: Bloggers help topple Murdoch's inBloom
APR 23 Blogger Tom Aswell has good news for parents who don't want the private information of their offspring sold/provided to corporations: inBloom is shutting down. He's certainly right when he claims the lion's share of the credit for bloggers -- most of the mainstream media, certainly here in Louisiana, didn't do stories on our DOE's agreement with this corporation until months after the bloggers had started reporting on it.
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D'oh! He must have forgot about this
APR 23 Look out! The Buzz Feed blog has busted Senate candidate Bill Cassidy in this post. Cassidy, a physician who is campaigning on how horrible it would be for people to have health insurance, once campaigned on a plan that sounds suspiciously like (you guessed it) Obamacare. Woops!
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Alford: Jindal admin needs new abacus
APR 23 Here's a post from Jeremy Alford on Gambit about the holes in Bobby Jindal's budget. (Hint: they're BIG.) The only puzzling thing in this post is Alford's (apparent) assumption that nobody in the Jindal administration knew they were there. Uh, really?
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Salon on "Medicaid obstruction"
APR 23 Salon takes a look at the Republicans who take the Koch brothers seriously (including our own Gov. Jindal) and have so far refused federal funding for Medicaid expansion. Joan Walsh has pulled together a lot of analysis pieces, so it's a good read.
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They're not all bad, Deshotels says
APR 23 Blogger Mike Deshotels has had a lot of negative things to say about some of the education-related bills under consideration in the current session, but here's a list of the ones he has something good to say about. He's got links to the actual bills, as well as contact info for committee members.
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APR 23 Mark Moseley performs a post-mortem on the Audubon Nature Institute's millage, which failed by a 30 percent margin recently. It's more than just anti-tax sentiment, Mark opines: there's something else going on in NOLA.