Bobby Jindal is putting his personal stamp on Louisiana State University like no governor since Huey Long. Long moved the campus from downtown Baton Rouge, hired and fired university presidents at will, but also invested large sums of money in his attempt to build the state's flagship university into an institution [...]
http://youtu.be/oqXk5XxHKx8 Two months after Hurricane Isaac's flooding devastated parts of southeast Louisiana, Americans have been presented with fresh evidence of the essential role the federal government plays in disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy's impact in the the northeast. By all accounts, the federal government's response to both Isaac and Sandy -- delivered primarily through [...]
Last week's failure of one-third of the members of the Louisiana Senate to sign a petition that would have triggered a formal vote on whether legislators would call themselves into special session to address the state's growing health care crisis was not a good day for people concerned about the future well-being [...]
