Between The Lines

Jeffrey D. Sadow is an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University Shreveport. If you're an elected official, political operative or anyone else upset at his views, don't go bothering LSUS or LSU System officials about that because these are his own views solely. This publishes five days weekly with the exception of 7 holidays. Also check out his Louisiana Legislature Log especially during legislative sessions (in "Louisiana Politics Blog Roll" below).

12.1.06

Devil will be in details of Blanco's next special session call

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The “unofficial” Legislative special session call has come from Gov. Kathleen Blanco , consisting of a mixture of opportunity and danger. Bl...
11.1.06

Recall petition presents quandary for advocates of change

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With a recall for Gov. Kathleen Blanco now officially launched, this presents a double-edged sword, and her ouster may fail to improve the...
10.1.06

Government consolidation efforts provide silver lining to hurricanes

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As one of the few silver linings to the hurricane disaster cloud, the storms’ impacts have triggered a useful debate in Louisiana about gove...
9.1.06

Landrieu, others need to have deeds match symbolism

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Part of the dysfunctionality of Louisiana politics is so often lip service gets paid to policy desired considerable, while these same electe...
8.1.06

Prudence penalized, risk rewarded with Louisiana insurance

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You are a Louisiana homeowner who bought insurance, kept the premiums up to date, and made no claims on it. The reward for your foresight is...
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5.1.06

ULM has chance to make trenchant social commentary

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You can’t fight The Man, and in intercollegiate sports for all but the smallest schools the National Collegiate Athletic Association is The...
4.1.06

Lawsuit may expose Louisiana's cosmetic electoral change

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Here we go again with Louisiana trying to set a date for physical enactment of federal elections, and looks as if the state may once again d...
3.1.06

Statistics, reality shouldn't reassure Democrat officeholders

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If you take a walk with a Democrat elected to a Louisiana state office past a graveyard in the middle of the night, expect to hear a lot of ...
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2.1.06

New year, but same good old boy attitudes in Louisiana

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It’s a new year, but too many of the same old attitudes remain in regards to those people in power in Louisiana’s government. Less than a mo...
29.12.05

Blanco doesn't get it; neither will she get reelection

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The reason why Gov. Kathleen Blanco will not get reelected in 2007 is she just doesn’t get it. Blanco seems to think that the public’s low ...
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