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Louisiana Union, Justice, and Confidence

Louisiana: Edwin Edwards Louisiana Governor
Not 48 hours after he stood on the House floor to be sworn in to the 3rd Congressional District office, Rep. Charlie Melancon got word from half a world away of a tragedy that would reverberate in the swath of southeast Louisiana he now represented.
There’s nothing Washington loves more than a sex scandal, and they arrive as regularly as PAC checks for incumbents. People here may dress like they...
"Speedy" Oteria Long, the former state senator, U.S. congressman and longtime LaSalle Parish district attorney who died Thursday at age 78, was "the epitome of a Southern gentleman," Reed Walters said Friday.
BATON ROUGE, La. State officials are in negotiations with the owners of a northeastern Louisiana prison, moving to take ownership of the facility that has been the subject of years of complaints of abuse and cronyism.
A word of caution for all on the left who would seize upon the Foley scandal as a way to make political hay: there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it. From what I've read in the blogosphere so far, most are proposing the wrong way. Sure, you could attack the issue head-on -- by running ads (for instance) with the immortal words of former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards: "The only
Most political handicappers were caught off guard Saturday night as State Senator Jay Dardenne not only made it into the runoff, he ended up running ahead of his Democratic challenger, Francis Heitmeier. Senator Heitmeier was supposed to run first.
BATON ROUGE -- A Louisiana agency is on the verge of buying a Tallulah correctional center from a group of private owners whose dealings with the state led to accusations of cronyism aimed at former Gov. Edwin Edwards.
Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards once said he would never be defeated for re-election - unless he were caught in bed with a dead girl - or live boy. Republican Congressman Mark Foley got caught with a live boy. Several live boys, in fact. Sending sexually-suggestive emails to them. And God knows what else. Foley's resigned - the third Republican Congressman to resign in disgrace
With the US Senate passing new anti-online gaming legislation, David Litterick looks at gambling in Louisiana which, outside the meccas of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, has gone further than most in opening its doors to casinos.
OAKDALE, La. Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards arrived here in 2004, transferred from a Texas prison.

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