Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Brother, can you spare a dime?
MAY 20 Looks like the Jindal administration is going to need yet another loan to keep the lights on at Louisiana's institutions of higher learning, this post in LaPolitics tells us. Treasury officials estimate that close to $60 million will be needed to keep our colleges and universities running. What's wrong with this picture?
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Aswell: White is "cooking the books"
MAY 20 The current obsession with test scores has forced some to get "creative" when it comes to record-keeping, blogger Tom Aswell says in this post. As parents get antsy, LEAP score releases have been delayed again while the DOE massages numbers for the Recovery School District, he tells us.
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MAY 20 Columnist Jim Beam says the people of Louisiana deserve to know why Gov. Jindal and the legislature are waging "all-out war" on lawsuits aimed at making Big Oil take responsibility for its actions. The rhetoric is "entertaining," but the arguments are weak, he adds.
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MAY 20 While families celebrate college graduations across Louisiana, we have an opportunity to reflect on the damage done to higher ed in this state, blogger Dayne Sherman writes in this post. It is time to "stop the stupidity and fund higher education," he argues.
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MAY 20 The Lens posts this editorial by Ruthie Frierson about the various and sundry bills pending that would make the levee board "a governor's plaything." Senator Adley's bills basically counter every move voters made following the lessons we learned the hard way in Katrina, she writes.
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MAY 20 Blogger CB Forgotston says it's about time the gag rule of our "Heh Heh Heh Ethics Board" was struck down. The rule has made it a crime for anyone who filed an ethics complaint to discuss it. It is ironic that the law's undoing was brought about by a corrupt politician, he adds.
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MAY 20 The NOLA Defender blog tells us about a new combination to try - Roman Candy Rum. It's a conglomeration of the Roman Chewing Candy you can find in New Orleans (it's basically taffy if you've never had it) and another NOLA staple - alcohol.
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MAY 20 Here's a post from Jeremy Alford on the Gambit news blog about the secession attempt by a group in south Baton Rouge. It's pretty flowery, and includes comments from supporters who want us to believe that the only way to "protect" the middle class is to segregate it from any lower class.