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Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

• WE BEAT EVERYBODY TO THE TOP OF A ROTTEN LIST

  JUN 19 Mississippi may have come in first for corruption, but Louisiana is on top of another rotten list. According to this post in the (Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger, we're tops in the number of gun-related deaths in the nation. The study finds a correlation between gun ownership rates, lenient gun laws, and citizens dead by guns.

• WAPO: WE COULD SAVE SOME MONEY IF WE WEREN'T SO CROOKED!

  JUN 19 Here's an interesting analysis of the recent study that found corrupt states tend to spend more money on constructing roads and bridges than on making sure people are well and educated, written by Niraj Chokshi in the Washington Post. In addition, Chokshi says, the study found that these states (yes, we're #2) could save big bucks by cutting down on corruption.

• BEAM: OUTSOURCING ISN'T ALWAYS THE ANSWER

  JUN 19 Columnist Jim Beam has some news for Bobby Jindal, who seems to be an outsourcing machine: it's not always the best solution. What he wants to know is what we all do: If these plans are so great, how come we can't get any information about the terms or the results? If it's such a great idea, why conceal what's going on?

• ACADIANA PLAYER GIVEN 4 STARS BY ESPN

  JUN 19 Louisiana was well-represented when ESPN released its rankings of the best high school football players - and Lafayette was as well, with Acadiana tight end Bry'Kiethon Mouton given four stars, the Picayune reports here. Is it football season yet?

• THE SIGN PAINTERS OF NOLA

  JUN 19 Gambit offers this really cool profile of a group - the guys who paint those signs you see all over New Orleans (well, the interesting part of New Orleans anyway). There's a slideshow that includes some of the artists with their work.

• "A COMMON CORE FLIP FLOPPER"

  JUN 19 Arne Duncan lashed out at Bobby Jindal on national news Wednesday, calling our governor a "Common Core flip flopper," this post on the Daily Caller reports. Looks like the Secretary of Education has Bobby's number - he says it is because Bobby's more worried about running for President than he is about Louisiana's children.

• CB: INK'S NOT DRY, CUTS START ALREADY

  JUN 19 Blogger CB Forgotston is keeping on top of the mid-year cuts that Bobby Jindal says aren't happening. This time, they're coming early, he tells us, and unfortunately they're at another higher ed institution.

• CRAWFISH: ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER

  JUN 19 Crazy Crawfish is blogging about Common Core in this post, but with an interesting twist. Supporters and detractors seem to get the same amount of play in the media, in the interest of balance, he says. But they're not equivalent, he argues.