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Sequester Means No Spending Cuts
The politicians and mainstream media would have you believe that the March 1 Sequester is the end of the world as we know it. It isn’t. Federal spending this year, even after Sequester, will rise b...
Mar 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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News Analysis: Budget debate begins with Jindal plan
BATON ROUGE, La. — The legislative session doesn’t begin until April, but the state’s annual budget debate kicks off this week as Gov. Bobby Jindal unveils his multibillion-dollar spending proposa...
Feb 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Home Front gave much in WWII
Many slogans were associated with World War II but the unspoken slogan had to be "Waste not, want not." It seemed that the citizenry was constantly reminded that everything they'd once thrown away ...
Feb 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why Vermilion?
Why is the muddy, brown Vermilion River named for a shade of red? Legend has it that the name came from the red color of water that got into the river when the Red River flooded. It sounds plausibl...
Jan 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why Vermilion?
Why is the muddy, brown Vermilion River named for a shade of red? Legend has it that the name came from the red color of water that got into the river when the Red River flooded. It sounds plausibl...
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Why Vermilion?
Why is the muddy, brown Vermilion River named for a shade of red? Legend has it that the name came from the red color of water that got into the river when the Red River flooded. It sounds plausibl...
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Most Corrupt Mayor in New Orleans History Finally Indicted
By JEFF CROUERE C. Ray Nagin, the man who was elected mayor of New Orleans as a reformer has finally been indicted by federal prosecutors after a multi-year investigation. With this 21-count indict...
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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A simple song that went to the top
Floyd Soileau, in a note about our recent comments on the closing of his legendary record shop, reminds me of "a young musician from Lebeau who wrote and recorded a simple little song that won him ...
Jan 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Estherwood and the pirate
Estherwood had two names before it became Estherwood: Tortue, after the Attakapas chief Celestine La Tortue, and Coulee Trief, for Jean-Baptiste Trief, a mysterious man believed to have been one of...
Jan 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Fiscal Cliff, Part One’ Is Over
By DAN JUNEAU Special from LABI BATON ROUGE — “Fiscal Cliff, Part One” is over. President Obama wins the round. He wanted to raise the income tax rates on the top two percent of taxpayers and he go...
Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Little concern for justice in New Orleans!

Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Even Floyd's couldn't go on forever
Rod Bernard is one of a lot of folk who mourn the closing of Floyd’s Record Shop—an Acadiana institution if ever there was one. Floyd Soileau’s record shop and his Flat Town Music Co. founded in 19...
Dec 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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