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JINDAL WANTS TO INFLICT HIS SQUIRRELY ECONOMIC POLICIES ON AMERICA
DEC 10 Blogger Tom Aswell takes a look at the Friends of Bobby Jindal website, and it´s giving him the heeby-jeebies. If you´re horrified by Jindal´s destruction of higher education, or by his patchwork budgets, you need to read it, too, Aswell writes.
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ONCE AGAIN, RELYING ON BLOGGERS FOR EDUCATION NEWS
DEC 10 Here´s another post about serious problems with the state Department of Education that we should be hearing about from mainstream media - but aren´t. Instead, we´re hearing about these issues from bloggers Crazy Crawfish and Deutsch29. (Again.) The issue this time: Is Louisiana really teaching Common Core?
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DEM CHAIR LASHES OUT AT KOCH BROTHERS, RIGHT WING ECHO CHAMBER
DEC 10 State Sen. Karen Carter-Peterson pens this guest column on Lamar White Jr.´s blog about Saturday´s election, and the general state of Louisiana´s Democratic Party. It´s not as strong as it could be because of the Koch brothers´ relentless advertising and the "toxic media environment" fueled by Fox "News" and the "right wing echo chamber," she writes.
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DEC 10 All these (GOP) politicians who are so hot to get involved in the Common Core debate - are they really interested in children and education, or are they just pushing what they think is a political hot button that will light up the Tea Party? Jed Horne explores the conundrum in this post on The Lens.
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POLITICS AIN´T AS LOCAL AS IT USED TO BE
DEC 10 Columnist Stephanie Grace muses on the Tip O´Neil cliche about all politics being local in light of this past weekend´s election. She wonders: Given the heavy involvement of out of state corporations, can that expression really be relevant now?
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DEC 10 This column on Huffington Post is penned by David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society. Louisiana is disappearing, and once Katrina left the headlines, the problem became out of sight and out of mind, he says.
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THE LOUISIANA CONNECTION TO ORION
DEC 10 The Orion spacecraft that launched last week has ties to Louisiana, this post on NOLA Defender says. Part of the craft was built in Louisiana, and a patch was designed by Baton Rouge school children.
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LESSONS FROM SATURDAY´S ELECTION MAY TAKE A WHILE TO LEARN
DEC 10 The election will cause changes across the state, but it may be a while before we see them, Marion Marks writes in this post on the Forward Now blog. The state in general, and Shreveport in particular, may see fallout beyond government meeting chambers -- in criminal courtrooms, Marks writes.
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Jindal wants to bring his squirrely economic policies to America