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			<title><![CDATA[Obama New Orleans town hall: Boos for Bobby Jindal]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2009-10-16 04:34:26</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama New Orleans town hall: Boos for Bobby Jindal]]></title>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rainy Day Fund, Breathalyzers, Emergency Shelters, Internet Fee, N.O. Master Plan Take Center Stage At Legislature]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-06-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Louisiana Senate is refusing to give up on attempts to tap the state's "rainy day" fund and to delay a tax break as a way to stave off budget cuts next year.

The House has yet to debate either proposal - but House leaders oppose both financing...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fifty Cent Cigarette Tax Increase Rejected]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-06-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Louisiana House members have rejected a proposed 50-cent increase in cigarette taxes.

The measure needed 70 votes, or two-thirds of the House, for passage. But Rep. Karen Carter Peterson won just 45 votes, with 55 voting against the New Orleans Democrat'...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Attempts to Derail Cigarette Tax Bill Fail]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-06-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A contentious proposal to raise Louisiana's tobacco tax has survived repeated attempts to derail it that would have made it nearly impossible for the bill to gain final passage.

The state House spent much of Tuesday afternoon locked in a series of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[N.O. lawmaker wants higher cigarette taxes]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-06-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A state lawmaker from New Orleans wants to increase taxes on cigarettes, to produce more revenue for health care programs in Louisiana.

Rep. Karen Carter Peterson's legislation would increase taxes by 50 cents per pack of cigarettes, and increase taxes...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Special Election In May For House Seat]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/wgno-news-2010-special-may-election,0,2889662.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2010-03-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A special election to fill a New Orleans-based seat in the state House of Representatives will be held in May.

The vacancy was created when Rep. Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat, was elected to the state Senate.

House Speaker Jim Tucker set the special...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Moreno wins La. House election and Honore wins La. House seat]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-05-30 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Former broadcaster Helena Moreno has won a special election runoff in District 93 of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

WWL-TV of New Orleans reports that according to unofficial results from Saturday's election, Moreno received 1,274, or 56...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Could The Spill Restore Jindal As A GOP Whiz Kid?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-06-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's a rough schedule for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal - a near daily grind of military helicopter flights or roaring airboat tours to remote steamy marshes and sun-baked barrier islands increasingly endangered by the BP oil spill.

Sweeping sticks or fish...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[La. Senate backs abortion regulation bills]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-06-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Louisiana's health secretary should have broader discretion to revoke abortion clinic licenses in case of safety and health concerns, the state Senate decided Monday, giving final passage to the proposal.

The measure by Rep. Fred Mills, D-Parks, would...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senator Carter Peterson Takes Oath Of Office]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/wgno-news-senator-peterson-swearing-in-story,0,1840190.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2010-03-01 16:28:54</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Karen Carter Peterson is the new state senator for Senate District 5.

Sen. Carter Peterson was sworn in Monday evening during special ceremonies at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Keva Landrum Johnson administered...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Recovery School District repair allocation OK'd]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Several lawmakers expressed their displeasure about how it's run, but a legislative budget committee finally agreed to let the Recovery School District move ahead with $163 million in repairs to hurricane-damaged schools in New Orleans.

The...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cheryl Gray Evans Resigning From Senate]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-12-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[District 5 State Senator Cheryl Gray Evans is resigning from the Senate to join her husband who has been stationed at a Navy base in Connecticut since their marriage earlier this year. Her resignation is effective February 5, 2010.

In a letter to...]]></description>
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