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Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy is just both inside and outside of state government who are nonplussed over the current state of healthcare in Louisiana.

According to Louisiana Treasurer, John Kennedy the state was caught  a little “flat-footed” and  “without a plan” when Congress reduced the amount Louisiana would receive from the federal government for Medicaid.

For many in Louisiana, the announcement that Jim Letten has resigned from his post as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana after controversial Internet postings my members of his office.

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals joined St. Tammany Parish leaders and area legislators today to announce a final agreement allowing the parish to use the property at Southeast Louisiana Hospital in Mandeville, with Meridian Behavioral Health Services assuming control of inpatient beds at the hospital and outpatient services on the property continuing.

How do the voters feel about the ethics of your governor, Congressman or U.S. Senator?  

How do the voters feel about the ethics of your governor, Congressman or U.S. Senator?  

Today, Governor Bobby Jindal and Sasol Ltd. CEO David Constable announced the company plans to invest between $16 billion and $21 billion in an integrated GTL and ethane cracker complex in Westlake that is expected to create 1,253 direct jobs paying an average salary, at full employment, of nearly $88,000, plus benefits, and resulting in an additional 5,886 new, indirect jobs, for a total of more than 7,000 direct and indirect jobs. Sasol also will retain 435 existing direct jobs in Westlake as a result of the project.

The Shah of Iran is still dead and Kate Middleton is still not pregnant.

Part of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's education legislation which passed the legislative body in warp speed early this spring has become derailed as a state Judge found that the paying mechanism for the controversial voucher program was constitutional.

The legislation had been touted by Jindal and others as a way to transform not just Louisiana education but American education.  As a result, and because Jindal has been pegged to be one of the future republican leaders, the setback at the hands of the Court has sent ripples throughout the local and national media.  Here is a sample as to what has been recently written about the legislation and the Court ruling.