Editorial
Round 2 - Battle of B.R.
The 144 members of the Legislature didn’t exactly enjoy the recent Special Session on redistricting. As noted in previous columns, redrawing districts to correspond to population changes enumerate...
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Fed up with the Fed
When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don’t want us to understand.
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Pense Donc!!
HIGH WATER COMING. . . As I write this late Sunday, it appears very likely that the Corps of Engineers will order the opening of the Morganza Spillway later during the week in order to reduce the ...
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Obamacare - fact vs. fiction
As the impending Obamacare boondoggle winds its way through the regulatory process, hundreds of union groups, lobbyist infested industries and dozens of state governments are asking for waivers to ...
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Don't dilute Acadiana voice
When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves -- they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reapportio...
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Some random thoughts
Political End Runs The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people” will mean anything if politicians and judges...
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REAPPORTIONMENT . . . The official results of the 2010 U.S. Census were released in mid-December and it’s no surprise that Louisiana will lose one of its seven seats in the U.S. House of Represent...
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Save money by improving our charity hospitals
Louisiana has 10 state-owned, taxpayer-funded public hospitals, spread across 64 parishes and 45,000 square miles, to deliver health care to our citizens and train our medical students. Our Charity...
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The games people play
Poll after poll has shown that American voters have had it with Congress. The institution polls lower than taxes at a Tea Party rally. The big egos, the posturing, the partisanship, and the actions...
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Can Republicans talk?
The biggest battle in the lame duck session of Congress may well be over whether or not to extend the Bush administration’s tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire in January. The fact that this de...
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QUICK ELECTION . . . We commented last week on the resignation of state Sen. Troy Hebert and have since learned that a special election to fill his vacant District 22 seat has been called for Jan....
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Ken Salazar, look at St. Martinville
In response to the BP gusher, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has proposed an “Ocean Energy Safety Institute,” a combination training facility and staging area to respond to future blowouts...
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