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Uncertainty about Louisiana’s redistricting process has potential Republican candidates thinking twice about running for Rep. Charlie Melancon’s (D-La.) seat. Read more...
The city will spread up to about $1.1 million "" culled from casino fees "" among 14 nonprofit organizations, including the Caddo Council on Aging, Sci-Port: Louisiana's Science Center and the Independence Bowl. At least five groups that asked for money got none.
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's vote this week against abortion funding restrictions in health care legislation brought new attention to an issue that has long complicated her political life.
No descr To the Editor: The lack of decency in this country is troubling to me. Since when is it all right for a media personality, Glenn Beck, to call a U.S. senator, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, a prostitute/hooker on his radio and/or TV show for voting her support on the health care bill? Not one person from the conservative base has stood up and said, “That’s not right.” … You must be a ...
Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's vote this week against abortion funding restrictions in health care legislation brought new attention to an issue that has long complicated her political life. In her first Senate campaign in 1996, a retired archbishop in her heavily Catholic hometown of New Orleans said voting for her would be a sin. Now in her third term, Landrieu's support for abortion rights ...
Mitch Landrieu is now a candidate for the Mayor of New Orleans.
Now that Louisiana Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu shook the stuffing’s out of any New Orleans political certainty, and since qualifying starts today, let’s play “the primary election game”.
WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter may be in a bind over voting with his state or with his party regarding critical Medicaid money being sought for Louisiana, say public officials of both parties.
Kathrine Schmidt Staff Writer HOUMA — Terrebonne's economic-development group will withdraw from the South Louisiana Economic Council, a regional group that promotes businesses in Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary and Assumption parishes.
He succeeds Bishop Charles Jenkins
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 / Standard Newswire / -- As Congress prepares to vote on a health care overhaul plan, Family Research Council (FRC) today announced an eight week campaign to call all household phones in Louisiana to survey each household on provisions of the Senate health care bill.