2.5.13

End, don't mend, both solar and film giveaways

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It’s a start to reducing wasteful spending in Louisiana government, but the timidity involved seems unlikely to start the snowball rolling n...
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1.5.13

Shift in hawk focus might bring them, state success

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With the first move made on the Louisiana budgetary chess board, the next came yesterday setting up the potential for competing versions o...
30.4.13

Hawks succeeding in defeating genuine spending reform

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The self-styled “fiscal hawks” of the Louisiana House of Representatives won a couple of battles yesterday – at the cost of near-certai...
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29.4.13

Dedications overuse until changed requires funds sweeps

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As the Legislature prepares to grapple with the annual budgeting exercise, special attention has come to the practice of “funds sweeps,” hop...
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28.4.13

Hawks to self-inflict more power, credibility wounds?

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Almost two years ago this space predicted that a desire by many Louisiana House Republicans to posture as budget reformers, leading to adop...
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25.4.13

Populist itch makes Edwards propose insipid bill

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No doubt proclaimed 2015 gubernatorial candidate state Rep. John Bel Edwards understands the populist element in Louisiana’s political cult...
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24.4.13

Yet more evidence to back LA Medicaid expansion opt-out

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Another study on Medicaid expansion, another chance for those with faith in government supervised medical care or who want to bash Gov. Bobb...
23.4.13

House co-pay bill rejection cannot avoid hard choice

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As previously noted, governmental budgeting is a series of choices hopefully based upon some kind of rational making of priorities using ful...
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22.4.13

More to deaf accessibility funding than meets the ear

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A controversy over funding to provide for more accessibility for the hearing-disabled illuminates an unrelated controversy over Louisiana’s...
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21.4.13

Contracting endgame finds opponents' positions invalidated

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Previously , this space asked whether, as a result of a legislative initiative to insert Louisiana’s legislature in administrative decis...
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