La. La. Land - Another billion? That's a deep hole!

Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

• Another billion? That's a deep hole!

  APR 24 In addition to the billion-dollar hole predicted for Louisiana's budget in the next couple of years, there's another billion-dollar bill coming due, blogger CB Forgotston tells us. Turns out the state funds that Gov. Jindal's budgets have been raiding over the past several years are owed another billion, he says.

• Mickey's last party was a doozy

  APR 24 Hey, she knew how to throw a party. NOLA Defender tells us about the last hurrah of diva Mickey Easterling in this post. But really, to get the whole effect you need to see the pictures, and here they are. If you want to read a more personal obit about the lady herself, read this one in Gambit, written by Clancy DuBos.

• Ian on the Right's view of non-white votes

  APR 24 Blogger Ian McGibboney is remembering his college days in this post about politics. Although he was voting liberal, he was assured it was something he would grow out of (well THAT wasn't an accurate prediction). The Right seems to see all votes against it as evil at worst, and ignorant at best, he writes.

• One student's view on the trolls

  APR 24 The internet trolls (those people who will post the most hateful, vicious things as comments on articles and social media posts) are so out of hand that some publications have shut comments down. So how does the younger generation feel about them? This editorial in the LSU Reveille tells us one student's view, and it might surprise you.

• DeBerry's not impressed with Guillory's plan

  APR 24 State Sen. Elbert Guillory has a plan to help teachers "take control" of their classrooms - he's written a bill that would allow teachers to call the cops anytime they felt a threat in their classroom, without involving the principal of their school, columnist Jarvis DeBerry tells us in his post. While the need for this bill is unconfirmed, DeBerry predicts it will just dump more kids into the prison pipeline.

• Chains choking out locals on Magazine Street

  APR 24 Magazine Street is "the" place to shop in NOLA, according to some people, but it is starting to look like a mall. This post on The Lens takes a look at the issue of chain stores moving in and the resulting increase in rents that is making it impossible for locals to operate there.

• Supreme Court to mull Louisiana jury verdicts

  APR 24 Here's an interesting article in the Atlantic about a U.S. Supreme Court review of the way we handle jury verdicts here in Louisiana. The non-unanimous murder verdict, it could be argued, allows prosecutors to put minority jurors on a panel - and not have to worry about their decisions. The Court decides Friday if it will hear the case.

• Looking at senate and governors' numbers

  APR 24 Here's a comprehensive roundup of the numbers from recent polls in the pivotal Senate races across the nation, from the Los Angeles Times. There's also some analysis of some governors' approval ratings, and it includes quite a bit about Gov. Jindal, Senator Landrieu and the Medicaid expansion.