Visions and Revisions: Perspectives on Louisiana Society and Culture (The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, V. 15)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's health care bill has millions of dollars to help Louisiana finance Medicaid at a time when he is hoping that state's wavering Democratic senator will support overhaul legislation.
Discriminations (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to ABC News , Mary Landrieu (D, La) was paid $100 million (in the form of an earmark for Louisiana that Sen. Harry Reid inserted into his health care bill) for her support on health care. If true, Sen. Landrieu will be cast forevermore as the justly skewed damsel in George Bernard Shaw’s famous observation : the playwright George Bernard Shaw was overheard at a party to have said that...
Cracked Sidewalks (Free subscription) | yesterday
The following preview comes from none other than our own John Pudner, whose work you may have seen here many times before. The especially detailed preview comes courtesy of John living in SWAC country. He's having trouble getting it published, so without further ado... ==== Diminutive guards #1 and #2 will need treys to keep Grambling close Writing from the home of the SWAC champion Alabama State Hornets...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
by Brad Johnson Paul Bakus in a ruined pumpkin patch.Photo: Wonk Room Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming , caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay—pumpkin pie—is next on the global boiling hit list....
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Henry Drummonds (Lewis & Clark) has provided me with a draft of his recent article in the Louisiana Law Review: Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine to Allow the States to Make More Labor Relations Policy. From...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
AMITE, La. - A Louisiana businessman was arrested today on charges he engaged in a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 200 investors more than $11 million, money he allegedly...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A Louisiana businessman was arrested Thursday on charges he engaged in a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 200 investors more than $11 million, money he allegedly used to finance a lavish lifestyle.
sallydog | 11/19/2009
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with six residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi...
Bingo Hideout - Bingo News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Weird headlines regarding bingo machine laws in Alabama are dominating the internet, the reason for the hive of internet news activity regarding bingo machines is a rather strange decision to launch a series of raids on premises with subsequent closures and a number of high profile court cases which have attempted to dispute the legality of the bingo machines. The recent problems for casinos that...
LAist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Interview with Kelly Rutherford of "Gossip Girl" and "Melrose Place" from Thomas Attila Lewis on Vimeo 13 days ago we wrote about the Parents Television Council boycott of The CW because of advertising for "Gossip Girl" and at Monday's launch party for Mark Liddell's "Exposed: 10 Years in Hollywood" we grabbed the opportunity to ask "Gossip Girl"'s...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A former Louisiana congressman who was sentenced to 13 years in prison on bribery charges will be allowed to remain free on bond while he appeals his conviction.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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Submitted to a Candid World (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A great moment for Tulane Law School — their alumnus, Senator David Vitter has “no idea” if Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was rightly decided. Could it have been judicial activism run amok? Maybe! It’s forgivable for politicians to not know Supreme Court cases. I wouldn’t expect a sitting Senator to be able to [...]
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