Going underground
(From AP) ALBANY, N.Y. — When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
Gender role reversal
(From The New York Times) HOUSTON — Wearing brick-red scrubs and chatting in Spanish, Miguel Alquicira settled a tiny girl into an adult-size dental chair and soothed her through a set of X-rays. Then he ushered the dentist, a woman,...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
Dollars and sense
(From The Times-Picayune) Publicly traded local banks participating in this year's Gulf South Bank Conference told investment analysts gathered at the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans hotel last week that they're focused on growth, dealing with...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
House calls
(From The Washington Post) Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama's jobs council, to be checked in for a...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
Troubles roil biodiesel credit-trading market
In recent months, the tax credit-trading market for the biodiesel industry has been rattled by fraud allegations, plummeting confidence and numerous lawsuits. The Houston Chronicle reports the EPA has identified more than 140 million...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Congressional discourse a grade level lower than in '05, study says
Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade level, according to a new analysis from the nonprofit, nonpartisan...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Small businesses in La. still pessimistic about economic recovery
Louisiana businesses have more faith in the local economy than in the national economy when it comes to expectations for improvement, according to a new survey conducted by Capital One Bank. In its quarterly "Market Pulse" survey, the bank says...
DATE: May 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Just between you and me
(From Bloomberg) Victor Hand, a semi-retired railway manager in Maine, grew so alarmed when he learned that his state was building a database to store all residents' medical files that he rushed to the hospital to try to opt out.
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
Capitalism the Communist way
(From The New York Times) SHANGHAI — The Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation recently announced a bold move to crack China's tightly protected film industry: a $330 million deal to create a Shanghai animation studio that might one day...
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: News
CABL president: Higher ed cuts would cause damage for decades
The cuts to higher education being proposed at the Capitol, if implemented, will be an "absolute disaster for Louisiana," says Council for a Better Louisiana President Barry Erwin. "Not just a disaster for schools and campuses, but for the entire...
DATE: May 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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