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Ohio Legislature OKs collective bargaining limits
Unlike Wisconsin's measure, the Ohio legislation would extend union restrictions to police officers and firefighters Labor stronghold Ohio assumed center stage Wednesday in the fight over collective...
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Fat City closing law takes effect Friday, but enforcement starts Sunday
'Absolutely no excuses,' sheriff says The new Fat City zoning ordinance that forces bars to close weekdays at midnight and weekends at 1 a.m. takes effect today, but authorities won't begin hard-line...
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Bill in Louisiana Legislature targets illegal immigrants
Hiring, transporting or granting of public benefits would be restricted Legislation to restrict the hiring, transporting or granting of public benefits to illegal immigrants in the state has been...
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Roughly a week after the city of Gretna sued a Lafayette contractor to recover a $45,000 overpayment for its amphitheater project, Mayor Ronnie Harris said the city has gotten its money back. Harris...
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City-sponsored expo on Saturday for youth interested in summer jobs or camps
The city will host a Summer Youth Expo from 10-2 p.m. Saturday in UNO's Lindy Boggs Building. Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-PicayuneMembers of the NORD Cops for Kids Band blows out a tune at its summer...
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Pedicab campaign has New Orleans City Council office phones ringing
At issue: distributing permits based on merit, or a lottery The exact reason for a sudden barrage of phone calls to City Council offices last week apparently was a mystery to some of the callers as...
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Legislative proposal takes aim at crawfish predators
Bill would authorize farmers to take aim at poaching otters, mink and muskrat Two Acadiana lawmakers have filed identical bills for the regular session to allow crawfish pond farmers or landowners to...
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Poll reveals baby boomers' retirement fears
1 in 4 who are still working say they will never retire Baby boomers are starting to retire, but many are agonizing about their finances and believe they'll need to work longer than they had planned,...
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Cuba says it will drill 5 Gulf oil wells this summer
The country hopes to find enough crude to justify the costly exploration HAVANA -- Cuba says it will begin drilling five oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico this summer in hopes of locating enough crude...
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Termite-fighting program in French Quarter is out of money
Congress cut the program, so homeowners now will have to foot the bill for treatment Operation Full Stop, the 13-year-old federal program that pays for Formosan termite treatments of buildings and...
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IRS gives accountant $4.5 million in its 1st whistleblower award
Sen. Charles Grassley: 'It ought to encourage a lot of other people to squeal' An in-house accountant who raised a red flag about a tax lapse that his employer then ignored, leading him to tip off the...
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Few confident U.S. ready for nuclear emergency, poll finds
60 percent oppose building more nuclear power plants Most Americans doubt the U.S. government is prepared to respond to a nuclear emergency like the one in Japan, a new Associated Press-GfK poll...
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St. Bernard Parish orders work stopped on Provident Realty apartments
St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro today ordered work stopped on the four mixed-income apartment complexes being built by Provident Realty Advisors in Chalmette because they don't have proper...
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End to nuclear crisis in Japan is years, a fortune away
After the reactors are stabilized and cooled, removing the fuel rods and reactors is expected to take about 10 years Once Japan's leaky nuclear complex stops spewing radiation and its reactors cool...
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce honors Republicans in Louisiana congressional...
Opposition to health care overhaul and new regulations on the oil and gas industry wins points The U.S. Chamber of Commerce gave all seven GOP members of Louisiana's congressional delegation in 2010...
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John Georges says his billion-dollar enterprise started with a lemonade stand
'Lemonade Day' is meant to promote entrepreneurship among children During his failed bid for mayor last year, John Georges highlighted what he described as his rags-to-riches story of building a small...
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Louisiana economic development funds could soon be tapped out
The state's Mega-Project Development Fund started with $300 million and is down to $56 million Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret faces a dilemma: As business investment picks up...
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Curbside reycling, blown away after Katrina, is set to return in Jefferson...
Two companies are vying for the parish contract When Hurricane Katrina made landfall 68 months ago, recycling in Jefferson Parish became a ghost. Since then, at least two efforts to revivify the...
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Brisk sales of abandoned properties at recent New Orleans Redevelopment...
Another auction planned next month for properties in eastern New Orleans Even with a healthy down payment in hand, Shannon Faulstick and her husband, Raymond Jones, couldn't nail down a traditional...
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Federal budget slashing spares agency that regulates offshore drilling
BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico drove call for a more robust regulatory effort In a 2011 budget bill that Republicans say contains the "largest nondefense spending cuts in history," one exception...
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