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Lawmakers to get drone report before CIA hearing Thursday
President Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA faces a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing Thursday. WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA faces a Senate...
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Jindal aide: Army Corps of Engineers is a 'complete disaster'
The chair of Louisiana's coastal Protection and Restoration Authority said Thursday that the Army Corps of Engineers, aside for its post-Katrina hurricane protection upgrades, is a "complete...
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New Orleans City Council approves plans for Gentilly Woods Walmart
The City Council voted to give the store about 100 more parking spaces than are authorized under city regulations Plans for a Walmart Supercenter at the site of the former Gentilly Woods shopping...
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Homeland Security inspector general says $7.6 million for Nature Center's...
The center in Joe W. Brown Park included a science center, a planetarium and a 2-mile-long boardwalk, all of which were damaged or destroyed in the aftermath of the hurricane. The federal Department...
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Louisiana to contract with Ernst & Young to review Jindal's tax plan
Louisiana's Department of Revenue will bring on accounting giant Ernst & Young as a consultant as it crafts a plan that would swap the state's income and corporate taxes in favor of a higher sales...
View ArticleKenner's Pontchartrain Center sporting new $1.5 million seating
The Pontchartrain Center boasts $1.5 million in new telescoping seating in halls A and B of the north Kenner events center. The City Council accepted the work as complete Thursday night, and...
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On the Hill: A review of the week's congressional activity
Will Vitter-Boxer alliance last? Can it last? Senate Environment and Public Works committee chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and the panel's new top Republican, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., are...
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Louisiana Secretary of State's office launches scam warning system for...
Email system will notify businesses when private companies send out documents that appear to be official and provide warnings about fraudulent activity Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler is...
View ArticleInspector general, job rules, Kenner technology: Jefferson Parish politics
When Baltimore Inspector General David McClintock decided to leave his native state to head Jefferson Parish's newly created inspector general Office, one thing really drew him to the job --...
View ArticleObama's State of the Union proposals could impact Louisiana in a big way
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address offered new initiatives that, if adopted, will significantly impact Louisiana, including those in the state who make the minimum wage,...
View ArticleObama faces battle in call for higher minimum wage
WASHINGTON -- If anything illustrated President Barack Obama's new sense of self-confidence, it was his State of the Union call for an increase in the national minimum wage. For much of the past two...
View ArticleWestwego City Council does about-face, lifts moratorium on tank farm expansion
Last month, the Westwego City Council enacted a 9-month ban on expansion at Blackwater New Orleans LLC. This week, the council lifted the ban. Westwego's nine-month moratorium on expansion at a...
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St. Bernard Parish housing market and growth are topics for Wednesday meeting
St. Bernard Parish's housing market and sustainable future growth are scheduled talking points at the parish Housing, Redevelopment and Quality of Life Authority Commission's 3 p.m. Wednesday meeting....
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Louisiana health secretary appointed to national long-term care commission
Louisiana's health secretary was appointed this week to a national commission charged with coming up with proposed reforms to the nation's programs for providing care to the elderly and disabled....
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New College Scorecard shows average costs, loan default rates for colleges
Washington -- As promised, the U.S. Education Department Wednesday released an interactive College Scorecard that provides students and their parents with data such as cost, graduation rates and...
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St. Bernard Parish's post-Hurricane Katrina housing market discussed
In terms of St. Bernard Parish's still struggling post-Hurricane Katrina housing market and general growth, condemning property to prevent future development is not a viable solution, parish...
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Judiciary Commiteee delays vote on Shelly Dick, but her nomination still on...
Scheduled vote on her nomination pushed back two weeks. Washington -- Baton Rouge attorney Shelly Dick will have to wait a little longer for her confirmation vote to the federal court. The Senate...
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Mary Landrieu part of bipartisan group seeking to make online sales subject...
WASHINGTON -- Andre Rubenstein, co-owner of Rubenstein's men's clothing store in New Orleans, says it happens a lot: Customers step up to the cash register, ready to pay their bill, when they notice...
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On the Hill: The week in Washington reviewed
Former supervisor: Polite will be effective U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite, Sen. Mary Landrieu's choice to replace Jim Letten as U.S. Attorney in New Orleans, is a "great guy," and a very good...
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Raising minimum wage would have big impact in Louisiana
Washington -- Only five other states would be impacted more by President Barack Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour from the current $7.25. Louisiana has a poverty rate of 32.3...
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