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Louisiana daily news roundup

Stimulus eases community college troubles

By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org

States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds

By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer

States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor

More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.   Read More
Mississippi tops obesity rankings; Colorado is leanest state
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.   Read More
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Gov. Bobby Jindal (R)
Elected: November 2007
Term expires: January 2012

 

 

State capital: Baton Rouge
State nickname: The Pelican State
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu (D)
Secretary of State Jay Dardenne (R)
Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell (D)
Senate President: Joel T. Chaisson, II (D)
House Speaker: Jim Tucker (R)

 
 
 

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