Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
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OUR INCARCERATION RATE HIGHER THAN EVERYBODY
JUN 27 Here's a ranking that should be humiliating for us: this chart on the News.Mic blog shows that, if Louisiana were a country, we would have the highest incarceration rate on the entire planet. And it wasn't close, either. If this is a good idea, how come we still have so much crime?
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JUN 27 To commemorate the destruction of the Berlin Wall (28 years ago this week), Jim Brown is blogging about his own experiences with the wall that symbolized the Cold War in so many ways. He was a member of the US Track Team and a student at Cambridge when the thing was built, and passed through Checkpoint Charlie for a meet.
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JUN 27 Here's a story from CBS about the global proliferation of crawfish boils. There's a little bit about those evil Chinese crawfish, too, and all brought to you by Louisiana boy Jamie Wax, a CBS contributor who might be better known to us as the guy with the one man show, "Goin' to Jackson."
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NATIONAL COVERAGE OF THE WHITE-JINDAL SPAT
JUN 27 Politico takes a look at the ongoing and increasingly strident volleys over Common Core in Louisiana. In particular, Stephanie Simon discusses state ed Superintendent John White's comments about Jindal's recent move to dump the curriculum he helped create.
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BEAM: JINDAL VETOES SELF-SERVING
JUN 27 Columnist Jim Beam reviews the bills that Gov. Jindal vetoed this year. All of the bills he's looking at are considered (by most) to be "good government" measures. But Jindal killed them because he doesn't want anybody looking too closely - or having any say over - the actions of his own office, Beam argues.
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DEAD ZONE MASSIVE, BUT THAT'S 'NORMAL'
JUN 27 This year's dead zone will be about the size of Connecticut, but that's hunky dory because that's normal, NOLA Defender tells us in this post. This year's estimate is that more than 100,000 metric tons of nitrate flowed through the river to the gulf. Makes your bacon look insignificant, doesn't it?
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SO WHAT DOES BLIGHT LOOK LIKE?
JUN 27 The city of NOLA is keeping its citizens updated on the fight against blight by posting the addresses of properties that have been "cleaned up." Only problem is, The Lens picked some addresses at random and went out and took a look -- and didn't see anything cleaned up at all.
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EAST TO SOCCER FANS: QUIT TAKING OVER MY BARS
JUN 27 Blogger Katie East bemoans the inundation of "futbol" fans to her local watering holes in this post. It's not just soccer fans she dislikes, she's not interested in any sports obsession dominating the conversation - especially if the big experts won't take the time to explain what the heck is going on.