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Mothers’ day shooting in New Orleans
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17 wounded in New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting
17 people are injured, including a 10 year old girl, after a gunman (or gunmen) opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade. … Read More
Bush weeps while talking about Hurricane Katrina and dead soldiers
Former President George W. Bush openly wept while talking about some of the biggest disasters of his tenure at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday. At the conclusion of his speech, Bush mentioned “the people of New Orleans who made homemade boats…
Video of Police Encounter with Teens “Unsettling” But Not Against Policy According to State Police, New Orleans Mayor Disagrees, But What’s He…
An incident at this year’s Mardi Gras in New
Orleans’ French Quarter involving eight ;plain clothes state
troopers pinning down two teenage boys waiting for a parent (who
was apparently a local police officer) led to
a series of community meetings set up by the mayor, Mitch
Landrieu, long on complaints about crime and allegations of racial
profiling (the two teenage boys were black) but short on specifics.
With the troopers now being cleared
by the State Police (whose superintendent said while the video was
“unsettling” there were no actual violations of policy on tape),
Landrieu’s impotence in the matter comes back to center stage. The
mayor’s re-iterated his belief that the officers acted
inappropriately, but doesn’t really have anything he could do about
it. His own police force, meanwhile, generally recognized as being
one of the most corrupt in the country, is supposed to be under
federal monitorship, but the city and the Department of Justice
still can’t agree on who precisely ought to oversee the police
force after narrowing it down to just five firms
more than a month ago.
Video of the incident, which could easily be mistaken for a
mugging, below, starting at about 15 seconds in:
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Bobby Jindal kills controversial tax plan
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal scrapped a plan to replace income and corporate taxes with a new sales tax, following public outcry and a precipitous drop in his approval ratings.The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that Jindal announced that he will pull his plan in a speech opening this year’s legislative session, telling state lawmakers that he will not ”pout” or “take his ball and go home.” From the Times-Picayune:The speech is a major concession that Jindal’s proposal, a complicated plan contained in a total of 11 bills, is unpopular both within and outside the Legislature. The proposal has come under increasingly heavy fire in recent weeks as business groups and advocates for the poor have assailed its effects and think tanks have questioned whether the math in the proposal adds up. Jindal acknowledges the strong opposition to the proposal in his prepared remarks.Continue Reading… … Read More
