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20100728-re-0101Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce

Louisiana’s interim lieutenant governor could talk me into anything.



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Getting It

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce

A public commitment to funding arts and culture is an investment in us.

I wish I could communicate in print the word “fantastic” with the slight German accent of Acadiana Center for Arts Executive Director Gerd Wuestemann...

 

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Branded Pariah

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce

BP’s public-relations disaster deepens as its own industry turns on the oil giant.

It was inevitable that BP would be made the pariah, not by the public and the politicians — that happened within weeks of the Deepwater Horizon explosion...

 

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Qualifying, Qualified
Wednesday,  July 7, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce

Seeking no-good SOBs for a thankless job

Using the term “qualifying” for registering to run for political office is kind of like using the word “practice” for careers in medicine, accounting and law. We’d like to believe our doctors, accountants and lawyers are done practicing when they get their licenses, and we’d like to think that candidates are qualified when they qualify. Clearly that’s not always the case, be it police jury or president...
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Stimulating the Budget
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Written by Walter Pierce

Uncle Sam helps the Legislature polish its fiscal mettle.

Let me throw a number at you: One billion, eight hundred sixty-six million, five hundred eighty-nine thousand, six hundred and fifty-one. It looks really big when you write it out. That’s $1,866,589,651, or, rounding up and abbreviating, $1.9 billion...
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