Bush News

Though serious flooding has remained at bay thus far today in St. Tammany Parish, residents could see some water creeping into roads early this afternoon when a new band of showers and thunderstorms makes its way across Lake Pontchartrain from the south shore.

Numerous environmental officials from the Bush administration have taken jobs lobbying on behalf of the energy industry, and some are now working to undermine efforts at a global climate change deal in Copenhagen, says a new report from a government watchdog group.

There literally is no end to the extent by which Republican politicians will lie, distort, and manufacture statements in their efforts to disrupt, deny, and destroy the Obama administration's attempts to govern.

A 76-year-old man was convicted on Thursday of raping a 20-year-old, mentally handicapped woman.

An allegedly drunk 58-year-old man from Bush was booked with vehicular homicide Wednesday after a motorcycle crashed into his truck while he was pulling out of a driveway on Louisiana 40, authorities said.

John Georges wasted no time trying to craft a new image and dispel existing perceptions as he announced his candidacy for mayor Wednesday.

Politico: What if Bush had done that? When compared to his predecessor, is President Barack Obama getting preferential treatment from the media? That's the question Josh Gerstein aims to answer in an article for Politico , framing it around the president's recent trip to New Orleans.

The phrase "compassionate conservative" has gone out of vogue in recent years, and so, in many circles, has the underlying concept.

Arrogance and spite were hallmarks of the Bush administration, and these unattractive qualities were flagrantly displayed in the "war on drugs," which, as we've noted before, is really a war on people.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that President Obama was the most deserving individual for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

NEW ORLEANS - President Barack Obama, who accused the Bush administration of standing by "while a major American city drowns," flew to New Orleans today to hear directly about its 4-year-long struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

ECONOMY Bush tried to curtail bad loans Regarding the Oct. 8 letter, "Let Democrats have their turn": Doesn't the left ever give up on blaming Bush for all the ills this country is facing? The letter writer has it wrong in blaming the Bushites for our economic woes.

Albeit brief, your visit to New Orleans is welcome. The trauma of the hurricanes of 2005 is far from overcome.

Let me explain why U.S. Sen. David Vitter might hate to be publicly associated with Chip Pickering, who did not seek re-election as a Mississippi congressman last time around.

St. Tammany Parish's 7th Fire Protection District is asking voters to renew a 5-mill property tax for 10 years, warning that without the money the tax brings in, it would have to close fire stations.

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During the ongoing battle for hearts and minds over health care reform, we offer the following insights about opinion polling from a column originally published July 31, 2003.

Casualties are mounting in Afghanistan while the situation is rapidly deteriorating from hopeless to a word the English language has yet to create.

The two fire districts serving rural northeastern St. Tammany Parish plan to merge in the coming months, providing residents who live in and around Sun with round-the-clock protection, and helping, in time, to lower insurance rates throughout the region.

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal is urging the Minerals Management Service to expand offshore drilling, but to also pay Louisiana more to fix the damage offshore drilling has caused to the state's coast.