On amendments, we recommend ... Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 and a very busy ballot awaits taxpayers. With early voting underway, we remind everyone that there are nine state constitutional amendments on the ballot and one loc...
Mitt for President You have seen and heard the candidates running for president. After a year or more of listening to all the rhetoric it is time to make a decision. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, you shou...
HAGLER-HEARNS REVISTED? I will never forget "The War" between boxers "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler and Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns fought on April 15, 1985 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VI-M9Yw-28). I watched it at a closed-ci...
Jobs Versus Net Jobs One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of ...
Round 2 - Battle of B.R. The 144 members of the Legislature didn’t exactly enjoy the recent Special Session on redistricting. As noted in previous columns, redrawing districts to correspond to population changes enumerate...
Fed up with the Fed When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don’t want us to understand.
Pense Donc!! HIGH WATER COMING. . .
As I write this late Sunday, it appears very likely that the Corps of Engineers will order the opening of the Morganza Spillway later during the week in order to reduce the ...
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Henri Bienvenu henri.bienvenu@techetoday.comTeche Today.Com
Obamacare - fact vs. fiction As the impending Obamacare boondoggle winds its way through the regulatory process, hundreds of union groups, lobbyist infested industries and dozens of state governments are asking for waivers to ...
Don't dilute Acadiana voice When push comes to shove, most politicians can’t help themselves -- they value their positions more than the citizenry’s general well being. Such is the unfolding story of congressional reapportion...
Some random thoughts Political End Runs
The Constitution of the United States begins with the words “We the people.” But neither the Constitution nor “we the people” will mean anything if politicians and judges...
Pense Donc!! REAPPORTIONMENT . . .
The official results of the 2010 U.S. Census were released in mid-December and it’s no surprise that Louisiana will lose one of its seven seats in the U.S. House of Represent...
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Henri Bienvenu henri.bienvenu@techetoday.comTeche Today.Com
Save money by improving our charity hospitals Louisiana has 10 state-owned, taxpayer-funded public hospitals, spread across 64 parishes and 45,000 square miles, to deliver health care to our citizens and train our medical students. Our Charity...
