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).

15.5.09

Government must cut cyber venture capital losses now

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Two ships up and pulled anchor this, leaving even more tattered the credibility of economic development promises made by Bossier City electe...
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14.5.09

Sham "equal pay" bill would create more discrimination

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Some truly bad public policy ideas just won’t go away, and over time people, including policy-makers who should know better, forget the reas...
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13.5.09

Political hijinks based on fates of education, tax bills

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Political hijinks were on display yesterday around the Louisiana Capitol as committees tried specially to meet as the sun went down and memb...
12.5.09

Indexing exemption won't work without other changes

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It’s not entirely a surprise that Gov. Bobby Jindal would endorse bills generally indexing the homestead exemption, given his past actions ...
11.5.09

Agency request displays Shreveport's business-unfriendliness

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The Shreveport metropolitan area recently was named eighth-best mid-sized city for jobs growth by Forbes magazine -- perhaps despite Shreve...
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10.5.09

Even with revenues woes, suspending tax cut bad idea

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There is persistent talk that Louisiana should delay implementation of individual income tax cuts passed last year, and that now has an act...
7.5.09

Inane argument doesn't detract from civil service reform

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I will be charitable – Louisiana’s state bureaucracy does not have the greatest reputation for quality of service or efficiency, and a reaso...
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6.5.09

Procedural bill gets politicized by policy provocateurs

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The extreme irony of the situation is that those who were not trying to make it a policy issue were accused by those making it a policy issu...
5.5.09

Landrieu's silly statements serve his electoral purposes

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Perhaps it’s out of spite for an attempt to cut some aspects of his budget severely, or maybe because his big sister got herself reelected f...
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4.5.09

Dumb down bills' idea betrays lack of understanding

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From the content of the bills they support and the rhetoric they promulgate on them, it is clear that the proponents of bills that would sig...
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