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...stadium deal. After negotiations with city officials about a new stadium in New Orleans broke off, Benson announced Tuesday that he would now negotiate with Mississippi officials about moving his team to Hancock County, Mississippi, located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast next to Louisiana. The proposed site is 45 miles from downtown New Orleans, where the Saints have played in the Superdome since...
...several years, Benson has asked Louisiana to refurbish the aging Superdome, which was constructed for a variety of uses, and build a new home for the Saints that would be dedicated solely to football. Louisiana officials say they have offered Benson several desirable deals in recent months - the latest, made during a two-hour meeting Tuesday, would have paid for the immediate refurbishing of the Superdome and promised a new stadium by 2009. (The Saints' contract binds the team to the Superdome until...
...paraphrase former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, it takes being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy to get a politician in trouble, and that's doubly true in the Age of Monica. There's no evidence that Condit is connected with Chandra's disappearance, but there is a lot of evidence that he is connected to her. Once Chandra went missing, he had an obligation to tell everything he knew about her in a timely way. While the Levys are searching for the daughter they pray is still alive, Condit seems intent on searching...
...need laws to govern analyst behavior? G.O.P. Congressman Richard Baker of Louisiana is chairing subcommittee hearings on the matter and says voluntary guidelines are not enough. But at least they're a start. John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, says, "There's a lot of important moral suasion here. No one who signed wants to be singled out as not following the rules...
...yesterday as a House committee began hearings into the tangled relationship between the Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone. Firestone CEO John Lampe and Ford head Jaques Nasser presented widely differing explanations for safety problems with the Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone's Wilderness AT tires, and the committee chair, Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin, muddied things further by suggesting that seven of the tire models Ford is using as replacements might have higher failure rates than the Firestone tires. TIME's John Greenwald has been covering the Ford/Firestone inquiry and he spoke with TIME.com about how the hearings are likely...