Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Study: Medicaid rejection led to deaths
MAY 12 Gov. Bobby Jindal may see his rejection of Medicaid expansion only in political terms, but there are human costs as well, blogger Lamar White Jr. tells us in this post. He's talking about a recent Harvard study that determined Jindal's refusal to accept federal funds to expand the program for the poor has cost more than 500 lives.
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Gill: Big Oil and its 'stooges' in Baton Rouge
MAY 12 Columnist James Gill is not buying what Big Oil is selling; if there were a "rational" argument against energy companies paying their share of coastal restoration costs "we would have heard it by now," he writes. Instead, Gill says, Big Oil and its "stooges" in Baton Rouge are feeding us non sequiturs and lies.
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The Lens: state violated open records law
MAY 12 The state has violated its own public records laws in refusing to turn over documents related to execution drugs, The Lens reports here. The state denied any records existed, but The Lens has since obtained "dozens" of records that would have satisfied the formal request.
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Mandeville gearing up vs. fracking
MAY 12 Here's a post on desmogblog.com about a group of Mandeville residents mobilizing against a plan to use fracking to extract oil beneath their town. Looks like Gen. Honore and his Green Army are taking aim.
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MAY 12 The state Supreme Court has agreed with lower courts and refused to get involved in a suit over academic freedom at Louisiana College, the Religious Herald reports here. The SCOLA went along with previous rulings that secular courts can't get involved when the issue is religion-based.
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Beam waxing nostalgic with former leges
MAY 12 Columnist Jim Beam is taking us back in time to his first legislative session as a journalist - in 1968. Not surprisingly there was a lot going on at that time, including his having to share space with a committee-room spittoon.
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Jim Brown in support of charters
MAY 12 Jim Brown is blogging in support of charter schools this week. But that's not a surprise, since his daughter is involved in a charter network. Most of this post is given over to statements made by his daughter, making the charter argument.
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What Bobby told Falwell's followers
MAY 12 Here's the Picayune story about Gov. Jindal's speech at Liberty University, the college founded by Jerry Falwell and an important political stop for Presidential candidates courting the far right vote. In the speech, he describes himself as an "evangelical Catholic."