Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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AUG 13 If you're worried about Ebola, here's a NOLA Defender interview with an expert at the Tulane School of Medicine about the deadly virus. The doc gives us information about where the virus originated, what our risks are here, and what he thinks will happen next in the outbreak.
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DODSON ON DEMOCRACY, BATON ROUGE AND BLOVIATING TROLLS
AUG 13 Here's an interesting post from the Baton Rouge Business Report's David Dodson. He's writing mostly about the so-called fairness ordinance under consideration in BR, but he's also commenting on the change in political discussion that the Internet has wrought - and it's not all good.
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HEY, MAYBE HE'S NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL
AUG 13 Congressman Vance McAllister, upon hearing that Bobby Jindal had taken a swipe at him while visiting Iowa, had this to say: "Tell the Governor I said Thank You," the Monroe newspaper reports here. And he shot back with some advice that Jindal spend more time in Louisiana listening to the people he's supposedly working for.
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JINDAL DONATING 'JUICE' TO NY CANDIDATE
AUG 13 This post on USA Today's politics blog is kind of funny. It involves Bobby Jindal's plans to campaign for a NY gubernatorial candidate who's behind by more than 30 points. Chris Christie already has refused to help, saying he doesn't have "the juice" to bring a guy up 37 points. (Wait - and Bobby does?) Well, at least he knows how it feels to be 30 points behind!
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DESHOTELS: TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK
AUG 13 Blogger Mike Deshotels is taking the education reform camp's inventory in this post. The school system in DC, seen by many has a proving ground for the reformers' schemes, is not proving anything, he says. What does that mean for us? A lot, since the RSD's structure is based in large part on the same ideas.
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ASWELL CONNECTS THE DOTS BETWEEN GEORGES & EDMONSON
AUG 13 According to blogger Tom Aswell, the Advocate just published a shiny love letter to Mike Edmonson, and it has nothing to do with Edmonson's recent PR troubles, and it also has nothing to do with the fact that State Police oversee gambling, and it definitely has nothing to do with the fact that Advocate owner John Georges owns a bunch of gambling establishments. Nuttin' to see here, move along.
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AUG 13 Frenchmen Street in New Orleans: is it a place for locals? Or a place that locals never visit, having given it over to tourists? Four Gambit writers spent nine hours in the neighborhood recently, and recorded their observations. The answer is not cut and dried, they found.
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BEAM: LOTS OF ELECTIONS ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT
AUG 13 Columnist Jim Beam gives us a run-down of the many elections that will be on the November ballot. It may be that the only one we're hearing about is the Senate race, but there are a lot of other seats that will be decided, he writes.