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Pay raises on probable path to victory
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPOLITICS.com Proposed salary bumps for assessors, clerks and judges are all positioned to move forward in the remaining three weeks of the regular session. Toge...
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time running out on single sales tax collection system in La.
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPolitics.com With the U.S. Senate approving legislation earlier this week to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, attention turns to the ...
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lawsuits against state government mounting
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPolitics.com BATON ROUGE — Considering all the lawsuits that have been filed and those that are anticipated, the court system is putting Gov. Bobby Jindal and h...
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Allain continues moves to protect artificial reef fund
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPolitics.com A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was temporarily de...
Apr 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Analysis: Jindal offers no guidance for tax repeal
An AP News Analysis BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has punted the tax debate to lawmakers with no guiding principles for the multibillion-dollar budget implications involved in his bid t...
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tax effort guarded public from budget problems
By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPolitics.com BATON ROUGE — With Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tax repeal package and those like it apparently immobile and parked for the session, lawmakers are slowly tu...
Apr 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rep. Hensgens
HB 267 meant to unite, not divide
By REP. BOB HENSGENS The first thing I did when I read LHSAA Proposition 18 was take football out of the equation. Why just football? I would have reacted the same way if it were any sport, curricu...
Apr 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Analysis: 'Revenue neutral' toughens tax overhaul
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — By declaring his massive tax law rewrite would be "revenue neutral," Gov. Bobby Jindal has boxed himself into a requirement that seems nearly impossible to meet and that lim...
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Manufacturers have a Growth Agenda for the Nation
By DAN JUNEAU Special from LABI BATON ROUGE — In an ongoing effort to show policy makers the importance of manufacturing to the nation, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently rel...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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J.H. Campbell Jr.
Easter and Passover — God’s Presence
By J.H. CAMPBELL JR. Societies around the world are embracing “secularism” since they are encouraging their peoples to be indifferent to, or outright reject, religion or religious considerations. W...
Mar 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Savages
The Northern Arapaho tribe in Wyo-ming was granted permission by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to kill or capture and release two bald eagles a year for ceremonial purposes. Quite a backlash e...
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Drill
“More domestic drilling won’t bring back $2.50-per-gallon gas, as Newt Gingrich has suggested — oil prices are dictated by the vast world market, of which U.S. production is just a small fraction. ...
Mar 14, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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