Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Two former fed trolls cut a deal
MAY 2 Here's another shoe dropping in the case of the federal prosecutors making anonymous troll comments online about people they were prosecuting: Two of the former US Attorneys involved have agreed to give up their ability to practice in their former stomping grounds, the Picayune reports. It stops disciplinary actions, the Pic says.
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MAY 2 Bobby Jindal wears his "Catholic heart on his sleeve" and should be hoping for a miracle from one of those new saints if he really wants to be president, columnist James Gill writes in this post. He talks about job numbers and Common Core, but then it is James Gill so he also calls Jindal a "bloviating four-flusher who puts his own interests first." Tell us how you really feel.
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The best fest is over, you can hit Jazz Fest now
MAY 2 Here's Gambit's guide to the second weekend of Jazz Fest. There are schedules, previews, guides, maps and picks from Gambit staff to help you navigate the event, if that's where you're headed.
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Corporate welfare for a buncha dummies
MAY 2 Gov. Bobby Jindal has topped himself this time, Bucktown Pirate blogs on the Daily Kingfish. Not only is he breaking his arm patting himself on the back for attracting a company known world-wide for its incompetence, he's also lined up some sweet corporate welfare for it, the pirate says.
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Baton Rouge reinventing itself - at the capitol
MAY 2 Baton Rouge isn't known for its unity, but lately things have gone a little far, John Maginnis writes in this post on LaPolitics. Some groups are avoiding their neighbors all together and trying to use the legislature to win an argument that nobody else is having. It could set a precedent for other communities, he writes.
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Execution says more about us than the criminal
MAY 2 The recent case of a state being so eager to extinguish a citizen's life it experimented with drugs to do so perhaps reveals more about the state than about the guy who had to die, blogger Ian McGibboney writes. Since many people who favor the death penalty consider themselves to be Christians, they might want to do a little soul-searching, he adds.
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Brown: Why do we need levee boards again?
MAY 2 Jim Brown is blogging about levee boards in this week's post. They're outdated, he says, and most states with levees don't have them. Electing them is a dumb idea; what really needs to happen is the removal of politics from the process of levee protection, he says.
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MAY 2 Here's a post on NOLA Defender about an early-morning bust on Frenchmen Street following complaints of "rampant sales" of nitrous oxide. Several enterprising street pharmacists were selling the so-called laughing gas in balloons, the post reports. One of them made a break for it, but still ended up in the pokey. Welcome to New Orleans.