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      <title><![CDATA[Cameron Parish and Louisiana Geothermal ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;About $5 million in federal stimulus money will soon
make its way to Louisiana Geothermal, an up-and-coming company that
boasts it will be able to produce enough energy within the next two
years to power all of Cameron Parish. In fact, research suggests
there's enough alternative energy...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Tariffs Aid Alt-Energy Use ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Renewable energy expert Craig Morris told the
Louisiana Public Service Commission last week that the state should
continue to encourage alternative energy sources via feed-in tariffs. A
feed-in tariff creates financial incentives for renewable energy
production, regardless of scale. It a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fighting the Oyster Ban ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted
earlier this month to officially "disagree" with proposed federal
regulations that call for a ban on harvesting untreated oysters from
the Gulf of Mexico beginning in the summer of 2011. A commission
resolution requests that the U.S....]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arthur Morrell Seeks Rehearing ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Clerk of Criminal District Court Arthur Morrell
says he has evidence that should clear him of a conflict-of-interest
charge stemming from his 23 years as a state representative. In 2007,
the state Ethics Board ruled that Morrell, who is an attorney, violated
conflict-of-interest rules by...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anybody But Jay Batt? ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;At the beginning of 2009, outgoing Mayor Ray
Nagin reported $153,042.08 in campaign funds on hand for a "major
office TBD," according to a Jan. 12 campaign finance report &mdash; the
mayor's most recent filing as of late last week. Businessman David
A. White, the mayor's close friend and...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Sentence date for Ellenese Brooks-Simms ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman has ordered a
new sentencing date for former Orleans Parish School Board President
Ellenese Brooks-Simms, the key prosecution witness in the
Mose Jefferson bribery trial last summer. Brooks-Simms, who
pleaded guilty in June 2007 to corrupting the school...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Lee Zurik to WVUE-TV ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Lee Zurik, the investigative reporter who
departed WWL-TV Nov. 5, was introduced to his new coworkers in the
WVUE-TV newsroom Nov. 10, concluding what was perhaps the worst-kept
secret in local media: Zurik was leaving the city's top-rated news
station for the local Fox affiliate, where...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Quotes of the Week- [ Nov. 17, 2009 ] ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;"Louisianians don't want the federal government telling
us how to eat our oysters any more than we want a bureaucrat in
Washington telling us how to make a roux, and today the FDA heard that
loud and clear." &mdash; Rep. Charlie Melancon, joining forces
with Sen. Mary Landrieu on Nov. 10...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Quotes of the Week ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;"Everyone's a racist. It's part of something we have in
this country, but it's deeper and more virile and more visible and
entrenched in New Orleans than any place I've seen." &mdash; Dr. Ed
Blakely, New Orleans' former "recovery czar," in an interview with
Yaou Dou, a student at the Uni...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Health Care Debate Online ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Each day Congress debates the proposed health care
overhaul, Baton Rouge Congressman Bill Cassidy will post two- to
three-minute video blogs to keep his constituents posted. "We have only
had a few days to digest a bill that's nearly 2,000 pages, costs $894
billion and could reshape 17 p...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Tax Credits Coming to New Orleans ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;As some community development groups struggle to find
loans and private investments, the U.S. Treasury Department has stepped
in with $300 million from the New Markets Tax Credit Program for
Louisiana. New Orleans is set to reap nearly half the benefits that
flow from the program, which...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Dale Atkins Takes No Chances ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Clerk of Civil District Court Dale Atkins still
had no announced opposition late last week, even though qualifying for
the 2010 elections is just a little more than a month away. However,
Atkins, the Democratic incumbent, is taking no chances. "We're
preparing for re-election," said camp...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Outstanding 2006 Campaign Fines ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Some candidates who ran for city offices four years ago
still owe fines for late campaign finance disclosure reports, according
to the Louisiana Board of Ethics. They include Republican Douglas A.
Castro, who allegedly owes $8,500 for late reports after his
head-to-head primary loss to C...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[David Kent Not Running ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;Crime victims' rights advocate David R. Kent, a
Republican who has twice run for local public offices, says he will not
be a candidate in the upcoming municipal elections. Kent says he and
his wife are moving to Covington this month. "It means my political
aspirations in Orleans Parish h...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Manny Bruno Runs Again ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[&ensp;&ensp;The campaign for mayor of New Orleans has another new
candidate &mdash; and perhaps some much-needed levity. He is Manny
"Chevrolet" Bruno, who campaigned for the city's top job in 2002
and 2006 with the inimitable slogan: "A Troubled Man for Troubled
Times." In past campaigns, Bruno was...]]></description>
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