Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
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'Even Louisiana can't spend imaginary money'
MAY 5 How in the heck do we get to the point where our universities have to go begging dimes to pay the electric bill? Blogger CB Forgotston wants to know. The Jindal Administration's party line? It's a timing issue. CB isn't buying that.
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MAY 5 Blogger Tom Aswell isn't one to say he told you so. Oh wait -- yes he is! In this blog he's giving us the first look at what it will mean that on Friday the Feds rejected Bobby Jindal's plan to sell - uh, privatize - the state's charity system. Spoiler alert: it ain't good.
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At the top of another dubious list
MAY 5 Louisiana is near the top of this list prepared by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. We've cut per-student higher ed funding by more than 40 percent, the study found, and we're second only to Arizona as a result. Nice!
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The Lens: Guess who uses the same drug?
MAY 5 Sure, most of us have heard about the botched execution in Oklahoma. So, guess who uses the same drugs to kill its citizens? That's right, us! The Lens gives us the unsavory details in this post.
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Is a Big Oil backdoor deal in the making?
MAY 5 Blogger Lamar White Jr. has put several comments and developments together to form an interesting question: is it possible that Big Oil is negotiating a deal to pay for coastal damages? The players he's identified are interesting, as is the theory he's constructed.
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MAY 5 Sen. Mary Landrieu has seniority in DC, and in DC seniority means everything. But is it enough? Will voters care? Blogger Robert Mann explores that issue in this week's post.
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Ballard: Big Oil aiming at lawsuits
MAY 5 Columnist Mark Ballard gives us the low-down on the maneuvers aimed at the various lawsuits designed to "force them to clean up after themselves." One puzzling thing Ballard does: mention in passing that some of this legislation was penned by Jimmy Faircloth - identified only as a "Pineville lawyer." Could that be former Jindal executive counsel and frequent (losing) contract attorney for Jindal's grand schemes?
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Pic: Jindal, Leges should leave levee boards alone
MAY 5 The Times-Picayune calls on Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state Legislature to leave levee board reforms in place in this editorial. We know what happens when politics rules, the paper says: we saw that when the levees broke during Katrina, drowning people in their homes. Some of the bills proposed could "erode" our safety, the editorial states.