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Monday's Blogs from the Bog!

Monday's Blogs from the Bog!

• HONORE: WE NEED THE CLEAN POWER PLAN

  SEP 15 Russel Honore, retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and commander of the Green Army, pens this op-ed in the Picayune about the EPA's clean power plan. We worry and plan and protect for hurricanes, but allow power plants to "treat our air like an open sewer," he writes.

• LOUISIANA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH TOM BENSON

  SEP 15 Blogger Tom Aswell gives us the details on a recent Legislative Auditor's report on Louisiana's obligations to Tom Benson, some of which he says "appear to border on financial irresponsibility." He's also detailing an audit of the seemingly endless problems with hurricane recovery contractors.

• MANN: WHERE'S THE NATIONAL COVERAGE ON WHITE?

  SEP 15 Blogger Bob Mann is writing about the death of Victor White III, who died in New Iberia, handcuffed and in the back seat of a police car, from a gunshot wound to the chest. He wonders if perhaps the residents of that town should riot, as the residents of Ferguson did, in order to get national (and federal) attention for the case.

• GILL GETS THE GIGGLES OVER DEMS' ENDORSEMENT

  SEP 15 Here's another post from a pundit who thinks the Democrats made an error in endorsing Edwin Edwards. Columnist James Gill argues that the party's endorsement is a "mystery," adding that Edwards' record doesn't justify it. Huh? Since Edwards would never vote for any bill or proposal outside the Democratic wheelhouse, how is that?

• CB ON THE EDMONSON LAWSUIT

  SEP 15 Blogger CB Forgotston has the latest on the lawsuit filed by a Baton Rouge legislator over the so-called Edmonson Amendment. State Treasurer John Kennedy, who as a member of the pension board was named as a defendant, has filed an answer in which he agrees with the legislator's claim that the Amendment is unconstitutional.

• NODEF'S COVERAGE OF ENERGY FORUM

  SEP 15 Here's the NOLA Defender blog's coverage of the Gulf Energy Forum,  hosted last week in the city by The Atlantic magazine. Although the mag's people tried to ensure the discussion explored all types of energy, it focused on oil and gas, the post reports. Since the forum was held in Louisiana and underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute - how is that a surprise?

• JINDAL IN FLORIDA, HELPING GOP CANDIDATES

  SEP 15 Bobby Jindal spent the weekend in Florida, helping candidates there by criticizing a Democrat who, he says, doesn't believe in anything but himself. (Hmmm.) It's interesting that he's seen as a help in other states, right? Given that the polls here show his support is a kiss of death?

• NOPD ACCUSED OF RACIAL PROFILING

  SEP 15 The New Orleans Police Department has been accused of profiling suspected illegal immigrants and holding them for immigration officials, this post on The Lens tells us. Although federal officials only do "targeted enforcement," NOPD is accused of basically looking for Latinos and using a "stop and frisk" process, the story says