Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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APR 22 If you're a Walking Dead fan, you might want to check out this story on DIG Baton Rouge about the program's tour, headed for Baton Rouge and NOLA next month. You can be a spectator, a survivor or a walker -- and the walkers get professional make-up. The course is about a mile long and takes about 45 minutes to complete. And if you're wondering (or worrying or maybe hoping, ick) biting is not allowed.
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Audubon spending and sketchy reporting
APR 22 The Audubon Nature Institute poured $271K into a failed tax election, and then failed to report any spending until a month after the election, the Picayune reports here. Not only that, but they filed late Thursday -- the day before a holiday weekend -- ostensibly hoping that the news wouldn't get reported or noticed. Nice.
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APR 22 The Baptist Standard takes a look back at Joe Aguillard's tumultuous tenure at Louisiana College in this post. Even his hiring was controversial, and his leave-taking -- albeit just to a classroom there -- has been surrounded by argument. In any event, the board of the private Baptist college will now seek a new leader, the story tells us.
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APR 22 The NOLA Defender takes a look at our coast four years later in this post. Oil from the BP spill still is washing up on Louisiana's coastline, and this story outlines the Coast Guard's continued involvement.
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CB: you got a cleaning crew right there
APR 22 Worried about the filthy Capitol Lake? Blogger CB Forgotston has a plan. Let's get all those legislators, who are paid for many days they don't work, to get out there and clean up!
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NYT: GOP flocking to Common Core
APR 22 Republicans - and in particular Republicans who might be running for something in a couple years - are flocking to the Common Core issue, the New York Times reports here. But they're not supporting the federal educational curriculum; they're flocking because they feel it will be a good issue to run on, the story tells us. Don't worry, they mentioned Bobby.
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BP is gone but resentment still there
APR 22 Here's a story from the Reuters wire about the anniversary of the BP Oil spill. They've got some bitter comments from people who are still waiting to be "fixed," as well as a picture of a Grand Isle beach covered with oil.
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BRBR: a serious problem with sprawl
APR 22 The Baton Rouge Business Report's Stephanie Riegel writes about a recent study that determined Baton Rouge had the worst sprawl of any American city. Anybody who has spent any time sitting on the Interstate in that city can attest to it, and the reasons are pretty easy to diagnose, so why isn't anybody doing anything about it?