Word: louisiana
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...Army Corps of Engineers issued a 6,113-page report last week to explain why its hurricane-protection system in Louisiana failed during Katrina. In brief, here's what it said...
...Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson was videotaped accepting a $100,000 bribe. FBI agents found $90,000 of it in his freezer. In Washington, that's known as a bribe-sicle." JAY LENO...
...components. For the record, Vermont Yankee’s operating license will not expire until March 2012, which will complete its initial license term common to every nuclear plant in the United States.Zamore’s op-ed chided Entergy for locating its headquarters in conveniently distant Louisiana. Your readers should know that the recently consolidated company has been based in Louisiana for 90 years where it serves 2.6 million retail customers and where it owns and operates five other nuclear plants. It also owns and operates five more nuclear plants in the northeast including Pilgrim Station south...
...With the Democrats declaring this year's mid-term elections a referendum on Republican corruption, you would have expected a full-scale Republican counterattack against Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson after the FBI raided his offices Saturday night. But instead, the latest developments in the unfolding Jefferson saga have brought the two parties together for once, with both Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress agreeing on one thing: FBI raids on their offices are bad and dangerous things...
...victory speech, Nagin vowed to work more closely in his second term with Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and state lawmakers, who, through the Louisiana Recovery Authority, have more power over how funds will be distributed than the Mayor of New Orleans does. "It's time for a real partnership," Nagin said before a jubilant crowd of supporters Saturday night. "It's time for us to get together and rebuild this city. And when we rebuild this city, we rebuild the entire state...