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Ronnie Anderson, a beef cattle producer and forage grower from Ethel, has been re-elected president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Ethel's Ronnie Anderson re-elected president of Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation
Ronnie Anderson, a beef cattle producer and forage grower from Ethel, has been re-elected president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. Anderson, 62, begins his 24th term as president of the s...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
THINGS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE LAST WEEK: What the heck difference does it make?
John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, confused me (and many others) greatly in rendering his obtuse majority decision upholding the individual mandate in the court's Affordable Care Act...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Milo Nickel/The Man Column
Judas
Everyone seems to be giving their opinion on John Roberts, the conservative, oops, the Judas Justice on the Supreme Court so I might as well give mine. The liberal news media and pundits had alread...
Jul 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mike Reitz is the President and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. (PHOTO/Submitted)
The seventy percent solution
News flash! The day after the Supreme Court voted to uphold the healthcare reform act, the sun continued to shine and the planets remained aligned. Now that the uncertainty is gone, it’s time to t...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
State retirement systems remain broken
 In the early weeks leading up to the 2012 Legislative Session, state lawmakers were inundated with phone calls and correspondence regarding Governor Jindal’s education reform initiative.  But soon...
Jul 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
The Immigration Ploy
President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children...
Jun 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
State Retirement Systems remain broken
In the early weeks leading up to the 2012 Legislative Session, state lawmakers were inundated with phone calls and correspondence regarding Governor Jindal’s education reform initiative. But soon,...
Jun 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
The Immigration Ploy
President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children...
Jun 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Not your father's unions
Not many people know that the president of the largest association of business and industry in Louisiana grew up in a union household. My dad was a member of the firefighters’ branch of the AFL-CIO...
Jun 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thomas Sowell
Socialist or Fascist?
It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a "socialist." He certainly is an enemy of the free market, and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Not your father's unions
Not many people know that the president of the largest association of business and industry in Louisiana grew up in a union household. My dad was a member of the firefighters’ branch of the AFL-CIO...
Jun 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dan Juneau/Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (PHOTO/Submitted)
Things that caught my eye this week: The Wisconsin Recall Election
Governor Walker became the first governor to survive a recall election. Walker campaigned against public sector union collective bargaining excesses when he ran for governor in 2010. He won. His le...
Jun 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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