See how fast your head hits the desk while reading this story:
Louisiana’s State Health Department forced a homeless shelter to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat because it was donated from a hunter organization.
KTBS-TV reports that the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission lost 1,600 pounds of venison because the state’s Health Department doesn’t recognize Hunters for the Hungry, an organization that allows hunters to donate any extra game to charity.
“We didn’t find anything
You know, I’m really starting to like Bobby Jindal:
Gov. Bobby Jindal is proposing to eliminate Louisiana’s income and corporate taxes and pay for those cuts with increased sales taxes, the governor’s office confirmed Thursday. The governor’s office has not yet provided the details of the plan.
“The bottom line is that for too long, Louisiana’s workers and small businesses have suffered from having a state tax structure that is too complex and that
As you may recall, Bobby Jindal has started a large voucher program for Louisiana schools. I’ve expressed support for this, even though some schools eligible for vouchers are teaching creationism. My point is that if it’s a choice between schools that don’t teach evolution and schools that don’t teach anything, that’s not really a choice. And it’s absurd to take some of the more nutty religious schools and claim this represents the entire system.… Read more
If you’re not following Victoria Jackson on Facebook (yes, her), you really need to. She reads WND and believes it so you don’t have to.
Some intrepid people in Louisiana have submitted a petition to the White House to let their state secede from the Union. Again. It’s stupid, of course, because if they meet their quota, the White House will just say “no” and the president will no doubt take the opportunity to … Read more
This surfaced a few weeks ago, but it’s worth bringing up:
In Louisiana, there’s a new voucher system to help poor kids get out of failing schools. Students who come from households with income below 250 percent of the poverty line who are enrolled in public schools that have been rated C, D, or F by the state accountability system are eligible for a Student Scholarship for Educational Excellence—a voucher they can apply toward tuition
You haven’t heard much about Bobby Jindal lately, have you? You probably should have:
Post-Katrina New Orleans is already the nation’s leading charter-school zone, with 80% of city students enrolled, academic performance improving dramatically, and plans to go all-charter by 2013. To spread the model statewide, the Governor would create new regional boards for authorizing charters and offer fast-track authorization to high-performing operators such as KIPP. He’d also give charters the same access to
Missed this. Bobby Jindal was re-elected governor of Louisiana yesterday, dominating the primary so thoroughly — in a Democrat-dominated state — that they are skipping the general election. The reason?
Within months of taking office, he won approval for laws prohibiting public officials from holding state contracts and requiring them to disclose information about their personal finances.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune endorsed Jindal for re- election this month for those efforts as well as
