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Why does it take so long?
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
Equal Treatment screams the headline in the Saturday, February 24 edition of the Daily Comet. Equal treatment in this case is allowing a male student from H.L Bourgeois to bring his boyfriend to the junior prom using a couples ticket....
Article posted on February 24, 2007 at 06:28 PM :: Comments to date:
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Is everyone Asian?
Category is Science
An article title “The ‘first Americans’ probably weren’t”, published by Reuters, claims that the Clovis people were not the first to arrive in the Americas and that they probably arrived much the same time as other cultures. According to Michael...
Article posted on February 23, 2007 at 02:52 PM :: Comments to date:
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Snowe, Landrieu Introduce Small Business Disaster Relief Bill
Category is Senator Mary Landrieu
Small Business Disaster Relief Bill Legislation reduces red tape for SBA loans. WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, Ranking Member and former Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La.,...
Article posted on February 15, 2007 at 11:46 PM :: Comments to date:
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GAO Report Confirms Bipartisan Call for Accountability in Disaster Loan Program
Category is Senator Mary Landrieu
WASHINGTON – A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to be released today reveals the need for legislation introduced today by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and David Vitter (R-La.) to require the federal government...
Article posted on February 14, 2007 at 11:14 PM :: Comments to date:
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Quiet Bills, Big Impact
Category is Senator Mary Landrieu
In the opening days of the current Congressional Session, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu introduced Senate Bill 29, "To clarify the tax treatment of certain payments made to homeowners by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Mississippi Development Authority". This bill...
Article posted on February 9, 2007 at 09:07 PM :: Comments to date:
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Quiet Bills, Big Impact
Category is Senator Mary Landrieu
In the opening days of the current Congressional Session, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu introduced Senate Bill 29, "To clarify the tax treatment of certain payments made to homeowners by the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Mississippi Development Authority". This bill...
Article posted on February 9, 2007 at 09:07 PM :: Comments to date:
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Katrina Fraud
Category is National
The Daily Comet ran an AP story about FEMA fraud after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Some of the facts stated in the article: In one neighborhood, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) paid $84.5 million to 10,000 households which had...
Article posted on February 6, 2007 at 11:03 PM :: Comments to date:
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Comments from the Senator
Category is Senator Mary Landrieu
The other night I was able to attend the Bayou Industrial Group's Annual Membership Banquet. The keynote speaker was U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. I'm still trying to get a copy of her speech, but here are some of the notes...
Article posted on February 6, 2007 at 06:31 AM :: Comments to date:
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J.K. Rowling Announces Last Harry Potter Book
Category is Book Recommendations
J. K. Rowling and Scholastic publishing have just announced the title of the final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. As with the previous book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, there will be...
Article posted on February 3, 2007 at 06:15 PM :: Comments to date:
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Why Republicans are Losing
Category is National
Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry is just the latest Republican to forget the conservative values that are suppose to define Republicans. On February 2, 2007, he signed an Executive Order making Texas the state to require girls aged 11 years...
Article posted on February 2, 2007 at 09:17 PM :: Comments to date:
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Change the Lafourche Parish Home Rule Charter? You Bet!
Category is Lafourche/Terrebonne Parish
The Daily Comet, in its February 2 editorial, rightly came out against changing the Lafourche Parishes Home Rule Charter to give more operations control to the council. I think the Charter should be changed, just not in the manner currently being discussed.
Article posted on February 2, 2007 at 07:06 PM :: Comments to date:
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American Idol: Truly great or truly outrageous?
Category is Entertainment
The sixth season of American Idol has started which means the water cooler conversation is going to start heating up again (at least it will have to heat up again once we get through the boiling point known as the...
Article posted on February 1, 2007 at 11:15 PM :: Comments to date:
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