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Last 50 Posts

• Budget crisis! Revenue shortfall! Drowning in Debt! Cut health care and education but fund construction projects

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• ‘Governance: A Fable’ – a commentary on threats disguised as progressive political reform personified by Piyush Jindal

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• “Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League” (UL Press): a wonderful read for the avid Louisiana baseball historian

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Sen. Elbert Guillory: Arrogant and blatantly self-serving but delightfully tacky in promoting his ‘hard work’ sans ALEC

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• We knew Piyush was doing it to us, but this is ridiculous! Here’s the latest, absolutely essential state bid purchase

• Louisiana may be paying millions more than necessary for computer equipment through no-bid agreement with Dell

• It’s summer vacation time for students but the work must go on despite Piyush’s contempt for public school teachers

• Tin Man Piyush Jindal has no heart; Senate bill freezing COLAs for most rank and file retirees passes by 20-15 vote

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Piyush, take heed: Pew Research Center doesn’t agree with your optimistic portrayal of Louisiana’s ‘robust economy’

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Sen. Walsworth not above a little deceit to pull Piyush’s bill out of the fire; such is the Jindal brand of ‘good government’

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Could loss of that $80.6 million broadband internet federal grant last fall have been deliberately orchestrated by ALEC?

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Jindal’s economic yo-yo has perpetual ups and downs; is Louisiana better than the worst or worse than the best?

• Eavesdropping on lobbyists at Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee during recess in SB 560 hearing

• A joke passed along by a reader deemed worthy of sharing

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• It’s just an innocent little ol’ bill that would abolish payroll deductions for Children’s Museum & LaCAP, among others

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Piyush issues Employee Appreciation Day proclamation; state workers should wear jeans on May 9 and be happy

• If our governor were to have chosen a different career path, say, as an example, that of your friendly mortgage lender…

• Four years and counting: Piyush reign of terror expands and no agency director or department head dares to be candid

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Don’t even talk to Senate Hypocrite-in-Chief Martiny about retirement reform; he’s too busy looking out for colleagues

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• The administration’s answer to revenue shortfalls caused by corporate tax exemptions? Why, more exemptions, of course

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Administration doing last-ditch coercion in effort to salvage Piyush Jindal’s irresponsible employee retirement ‘reform’

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Requiem for the governor’s retirement package; meanwhile, he’s off for another riveting speech, this time in New Jersey

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• It looked like a victory in the Senate Retirement Committee but don’t be fooled: it was extremely bad acting by Guillory

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Take our governor….please. How not to run a campaign for higher office: have Piyush tell a lame joke to New Yorkers

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Of ALEC, ‘ATM Piyush,’ smoking guns, corporatocracy and the resurrection of the spirit of ‘Network’ actor Peter Finch

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• First it was corporations bailing out; now the parade of Louisiana Legislators exiting ALEC membership begins

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• Piyush up to political chicanery as SB51 omitted from Senate calendar on Tuesday; are contents being hidden from public?

• As if the Jindal team needed help looking bad, fake Facebook message posted following Senate Retirement Committee vote

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)

• The Piyush Purge begins: school superintendents’ emails to school employees sought by Gov. ‘Dear Leader’ Bobby Jindal

• Notable Quotables (In their own words)