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Notable Quotables Flashback: Ten Months of Media Scorn for Sarah Palin By Rich Noyes Created 2009-07-04 11:23 In announcing that she was stepping down as Alaska Governor on Friday, Sarah Palin noted the unrelenting hostility of liberal media elites.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law legislation creating a new public school curriculum with lowered academic standards.

The Louisiana Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to decide whether former Attorney General Charles Foti's files from his investigation of charges that Dr.

Faced with years of projected budget deficits, Louisiana's lawmakers in the just-ended legislative session created two sweeping commissions to consider how best to restructure government operations and trim spending.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor amid speculation that she will seek the Republican party's nomination for president in 2012.

Governor signs companion bills in West Ouachita ceremony Gov. Bobby Jindal signed legislation Thursday that will create a career diploma pathway for high school students currently at risk of dropping out.

BATON ROUGE "'- In a year that the state is digging for money to pay bills and laying off thousands of workers, legislators sent to the governor more than $150 million in tax breaks for businesses and individuals.

Gov. Bobby Jindal today signed into law three bills revising the laws for drunk drivers, including one that mandates jail time for driving with a license that has been suspended for a previous DWI.

The Louisiana Board of Ethics is asking Gov. Bobby Jindal to veto a bill that broadens an exception to a $50 cap on lobbyists' wining and dining of lawmakers and other public officials.

Monroe's signature company officially has a new name, CenturyLink, and is almost three times bigger than before after closing its acquisition of Embarq Corp.

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal has asked Tammie McDaniel to resign her post as an appointed member of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill that doles out nearly $457,000 to pay some legal fees for Anna Pou, a doctor accused of killing patients stranded at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina but who was never indicted.

Jeffrey D. Sadow is an associate professor of political science at Louisiana State University Shreveport.

Lawmakers and education officials cited the state's budget problems as the reason the formula for the 2009-10 school year doesn't contain the traditional 2.75 percent growth that has been included since 1996.

An effort to save the only public in-patient mental health facility for teens appears to have come up short, and the New Orleans Adolescent Health Center is likely to shut down in the near future.

"Everything starts from a beginning," explained Rep. Henry Burns, which might seem like an obvious statement, except for legislators who learned to take nothing for granted in the recently adjourned legislative session, which was light on substance but slippery on process.

There is a great amount of angst flowing through the conservative base of the Republican Party these days, and as a lifelong Democrat, I could not be more pleased.

It was not a really good legislative session for Louisiana's public schools, says Keith Guice, president of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

BATON ROUGE On Friday, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he signed 22 bills passed by the legislature into law and on Thursday signed 26 bills into law, bringing the total to 151 bills signed into law to date.

Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Marksville, says he will revisit railroad safety regulation in the 2010 Legislative session despite the failure of the bill he sponsored this year.