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America's immigration system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers and there are 11 million people living in the shadows. Neither is good for the economy or the country.
Added By: michael 05/20/13 2:19PM
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HB 646: The Safe and Successful Students Act
Summary of Bill Contents
Added By: michael 05/20/13 2:17PM
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A writer recently hailed federal and state education reform as a new civil rights movement. But the word reform, which means "the improvement . . . of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory," can hardly be applied to the recent changes in educational law. Most of these changes are not for the better. Instead, they create a separate and wholly unequal educational system masquerading as choice, which serves to destabilize and discredit public schools in the name of improvement and to make state funds accessible to a wide range of individuals and corporations with little or no oversight.
Added By: michael 04/29/13 5:06PM
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Longtime death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean and the Rev. Welton Gaddy, an advocate for the separation of church and state, will speak next month at separate St. Tammany Parish events. Both events are sponsored by Progressive Northshore Democrats and the Northshore Democratic Women's Club.
Added By: michael 04/22/13 10:23AM
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Democratic leaders in the Louisiana House and Senate today called for a renewed focus on the state budget and rejected Gov. Bobby Jindal's irresponsible tax proposal, which resembles a similar plan that Jindal dismissed in 2011 as harmful to education and health care.
Added By: michael 04/16/13 2:13PM
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It's time for a pep talk, and we have one coming up. Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking" and tireless crusader against the death penalty and for liberal causes, will address us Friday, May 3, at 6: 30. "I can't wait to meet the St Tammany Democrats," she told NDWC member Liz Scott. "I would talk to you in a Popeye's parking lot." She won't have to. We've arranged for her to speak to us at Faith Bible Church on the corner of Tyler and Columbia in downtown Covington. Sister Helen, by the way, contributed two recipes to the NDWC Cookbook for the Hungry.
Added By: michael 04/16/13 2:10PM
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In no area does Gov. Bobby Jindal stretch the truth more in the assertion - usually delivered via aides, to avoid responsibility for his false position - that he has been a supporter of higher education in Louisiana.
Added By: michael 04/01/13 5:21PM
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In the two months since Gov. Bobby Jindal revealed his plan to do away with income and corporate taxes and replace them with higher sales taxes, we have asked him to explain why such a drastic change is warranted and how it would benefit Louisianians.
Added By: michael 03/25/13 3:15PM
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Governor Jindal's Sales Tax swap bill draft (which does not eliminate the income tax, yet.)
Added By: michael 03/20/13 10:06AM
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Louisiana Democrats have known for many years that Bobby Jindal's reckless agenda and national ambitions are damaging Louisiana, our schools and universities, and undermining our health care.
Added By: michael 03/20/13 10:04AM
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President Obama believes that our guiding focus must be growing the economy and strengthening the middle class.
Added By: michael 03/20/13 10:03AM
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A little over a year ago, The Wall Street Journal published a story extolling Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's ambitious plans for education reform, labeling Jindal's sweeping set of proposals his "moon shot." The term "moon shot" was intended as a compliment toward Jindal and a slight dig at Newt Gingrich, who was then in the midst of his failed campaign for President and who had just declared his support for a colony on the moon.
Added By: michael 03/06/13 2:34PM
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Back in the olden days of radio dominance, there was a daily soap opera called "Helen Trent" that began each episode posing the question: how can one, dashed against the rocks of despair, fight back bravely to live another day?
Added By: michael 03/06/13 2:30PM
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Mitch Landrieu is the Democrats best hope to be Governor in 2015.
Added By: michael 02/26/13 10:28AM
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Louisiana Democrats have known for many years that Bobby Jindal's reckless agenda and national ambitions are damaging Louisiana, our schools and universities, and undermining our health care.
Added By: michael 02/26/13 10:26AM
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