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Monday July 26, 2010

Draw attention to Louisiana's plight

During Wednesday's Rally for Economic Survival at the Cajundome, Lafayete City-Parish President Joey Durel spoke about the lack of response from many elected officials to concerns about the deepwater drilling moratorium.

Editorial  provided by The Daily World (Opelousas)

Share Oil Revenue Now

Louisiana and other Gulf states have historically received little of the mineral riches produced off our coasts -- and that's not scheduled to change until 2017, when states will start getting a substantial share of offshore oil and gas revenues.

 Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Monday July 19, 2010

A perfect storm threatens to swamp Louisiana's economy

In the blink of an eye, the economic focus in Louisiana has shifted from recession recovery to avoiding actual and potential job losses piling up at a staggering rate.
Editorial provided by The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)

Get government out of marriage

In the blink of an eye, the economic focus in Louisiana has shifted from recession recovery to avoiding actual and potential job losses piling up at a staggering rate.
Editorial provided by The Bossier Press-Tribune

 

Thursday July 15, 2010

There's some good news on the oil spill

Things are looking better along the oily Gulf of Mexico coast. A new cap, replacing the leaky one, is being put on the well-head and hopefully will contain almost all of the escaping oil until the new wells can be completed to permanently intercept the original well and shut it down.

Editorial provided by The St. Charles Herald-Guide (Boutte)

Monday July 12, 2010

A Personal View of Disaster

Second-hand accounts, no matter how vivid, can't substitute for seeing things for yourself.

 Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Pay Victim in Reward Case

A Louisiana Supreme Court majority has decided that Diane Alexander, the Breaux Bridge woman who survived an attack by the South Louisiana Serial Killer in 2002, is not entitled to $150,000 in reward money offered in that case..
Editorial provided by The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)

Friday July 9, 2010

Keep politics out of Gulf oil spill

A week that for many of us began with a delayed Independence Day holiday quickly turned sour on the BP oil spill front. Two developments showed what a long, difficult time looms ahead — one development chemical and oceanographic, the other political.

Editorial  provided by The Daily World (Opelousas)

Wednesday July 7, 2010

Preying on Katrina Funds

Louisianians who lost their homes when the federally built levees failed might lose recovery dollars intended to help them rebuild. That's because Congress wants to grab Road Home money to offset other spending. .

 Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Monday July 5, 2010

Legislature improves La. School

A legislative session that wasn't supposed to be good for much of anything turned out to be good for public schools. A governor and Legislature battered by short-term emergencies managed to keep their head up long enough to make elementary and secondary schools more flexible and accountable.

Editorial  provided by The Daily World (Opelousas)

Whose Coast Guard is it?

The Coast Guard says that rules aimed at keeping the public and news media away from the oil spill response are necessary to protect the environment and the people and equipment involved in the cleanup. Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Monday June 28, 2010

When budgets aren't fun anymore

How many times have you seen it in a movie? Indiana Jones? The recent Star Trek prequel? Any number of old Westerns?

Editorial  provided by The Daily World (Opelousas)

Wednesday June 23, 2010

An arbitrary action

In blocking President Barack Obama's broad moratorium on deepwater drilling, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman cut straight to the heart of the administration's flawed reasoning.

Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Tuesday June 22, 2010

Drill safely, baby, drill safely

We were glad to hear Lt. Gov. Scott Angelle, the former St. Martin Parish president and state natural resources secretary, say the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling is unlikely to last that long. Estimates are that the moratorium could cost 35,000 jobs along the Gulf. Acadiana, with its oilfield service industry and thousands of oil and gas workers, stands to be hurt by the moratorium.
Editorial provided by The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette)

Be careful in cleanup

Environmental destruction from the BP oil spill shouldn't be compounded by clumsy cleanup efforts, but a bird watcher found damage to nesting areas on Grand Isle.

Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Monday June 21, 2010

Pass the Louisiana GRAD Act

As the 2010 legislative session draws to an end, much of the fighting is over the budget. But the Legislature must also deal with one of Gov. Bobby Jindal's priorities for higher education — the Louisiana Granting Resources and Autonomy for Diplomas Act.

Editorial  provided by The Daily World (Opelousas)

Restoring faith in seafood

Ever since the BP oil spill began, it's been clear that the disaster will have lasting effects on thousands of Louisianians who make their living catching, processing and cooking our wonderful seafood.

Editorial provided by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Thursday June 17, 2010

Opening up the river would help fight oil

Doug Brinkley gave us one of the best solutions to the oil crisis in a program on CNN TV last week. He said we should open up the Mississippi River that has been leveed in for almost a century to flow into and clean up the wetlands of Louisiana of the oil that is invading.
Editorial  provided by The St. Charles Herald Guide (Boutte)

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