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Analysis: Football draws a crowd at the Capitol
BATON ROUGE, la. (AP) — The legislative committee room was packed, with education leaders from across Louisiana spilling out into the hall and lawmakers intensely focused on the information at hand...
Mar 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lafitte wasn't only pirate
Jean Lafitte was the most notorious — and successful — of the pirates operating from Louisiana in the early 1800s, but he wasn't the only one. A federal grand jury in New Orleans reported in July 1...
Mar 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 94 94 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sequester, Who’s to Blame: Washington
By JEFF LANDRY In August 2011, just like today, there was no shortage of political propaganda. Except back then, both the president and Speaker John Boehner were praising their debt ceiling increas...
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Saving the Southern Club
The news that an attempt is being made to restore the old Southern Club will bring a lot of memories to folks who remember what some consider the heyday of Louisiana's distinctive swamp pop music. ...
Mar 03, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 6 6 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 | 7 7 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 | 47 47 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 | 64 64 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 | 73 73 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 | 66 66 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 8 8 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 | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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