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Can you say, “LSU President Stephen Moret”?
A skeptical person might be forgiven for suspecting that the LSU Board of Supervisors — now packed with appointees of Gov. Bobby Jindal — is moving toward giving Jindal pal and Louisiana Economic...
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Jindal is now fully in control of LSU
A few weeks ago, I suggested that there’s strong evidence that Gov. Bobby Jindal will give Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret the job of president of the LSU System. LSU President...
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He ridiculed funding for “volcano monitoring,” but Hurricane Isaac prompts...
It was only three-and-a-half years ago that Gov. Bobby Jindal mocked the idea of spending federal funds for monitoring volcanoes. Instead of providing federal dollars to protect citizens from potential...
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Where’s Bobby Jindal? Not on the LSU campus.
I occasionally ask this question of my students: have you ever seen Gov. Bobby Jindal on the LSU campus? Their answer, of course, is no. It’s no wonder. Jindal, having slashed the state’s higher...
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So, Gov. Bobby Jindal is running LSU. Why should we care?
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Photo credit: Ken Lund) As the growing list of expelled LSU administrators attests, there’s no doubt that Gov. Bobby Jindal controls the LSU System....
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Bobby Jindal’s “democracy” of fear
It was quite a remarkable request of the news media during yesterday’s luncheon sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Baton Rouge. The featured speaker was Dr. Fred Cerise, recently sacked by Gov....
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National higher ed association warns of consequences for universities that...
The Association of Governing Boards of College and Universities last week released a statement that should be required reading for anyone concerned about Gov. Bobby Jindal‘s iron-fisted control of...
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Free Speech? Not in Jindal’s Louisiana
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.” – Albert Camus Hardly a day passes that I’m not asked by a reader of this blog, “You do have tenure, don’t you?” The reason for the question is...
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Gambit: The Jindal Administration and “Deliberative Process”
Bobby Jindal – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) In a chilling article in the current edition of Gambit, reporter Charles Maldonado details the mendacity of the Jindal administration and the...
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And now it begins: Jindal for President, 2016
After four years of neglecting his duties as governor while traveling the country to make known his availability as a GOP vice presidential nominee, Gov. Bobby Jindal finally returns to Baton Rouge to...
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My manifesto (or, Why I won’t stop writing this blasted blog)
By Robert Mann Almost three years ago, I created a blog, which I eventually began to call “Something Like the Truth.” At the time, I had not heard Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post journalist...
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The intolerable cost of America’s gun violence
#182992790 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann When I saw the quote, I thought it was a parody from The Onion, the satirical online “news” organization, which features fake stories like, “U.S. Encouraging...
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Radical ALEC nullification bill set for vote in Louisiana Senate committee on...
#96817536 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann In my latest column for the New Orleans Times-Picayune | NOLA.com, I wrote about how Gov. Bobby Jindal has morphed into a “nullifier.” That is, someone who...
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Did Bobby Jindal really slash state spending by 26 percent? Not even close
Screenshot of Gov. Bobby Jindal on ABC’s “This Week” on May 31, 2015. By Robert Mann Update: This post was written in late May. On Sunday, July 12, Jindal again asserted on “Fox News Sunday,” that “we...
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Shell game: Shouldn’t higher education leaders have more integrity than Bobby...
#172190146 / gettyimages.com By Robert Mann What example do Louisiana’s higher education leaders set by promoting the deceit and chicanery that is the Student Assessment for a Valuable Education (SAVE)...
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Former Louisiana budget director to next governor: ‘You are walking into a...
#112633854 / gettyimages.comBy Stephen Winham “Figures don’t lie, but liars figure” – attributed to Mark Twain (and others) Every day we are bombarded with numbers about our state and its finances. We...
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With bizarre attack on Lincoln Chafee, Bobby Jindal has become Joaquin Phoenix.
Screenshot of Joaquin Phoenix on “The Late Show with David Letterman” in September 2010. By Robert Mann Remember in 2009 when the actor Joaquin Phoenix began exhibiting bizarre behavior? He grew a wild...
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Louisiana Secretary of State refers potential website abuse by Jindal to...
By Robert Mann Here’s an update to this post from May 30, in which I shared my email to the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office and my request that its Election Compliance Unit investigate Gov....
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Jindal responds to Lafayette theater shooting with hugs and shrugs
By Robert Mann In the days after the deadly June shooting spree in Charleston, S.C., in which nine members of that city’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church died, Gov. Bobby Jindal attacked...
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Desperate for cash, Jindal tries to raise money off LSU football win
Gov. Bobby Jindal, his presidential campaign almost broke, desperately needs money. Just how desperate is Jindal for cash to keep his campaign alive? He sent this email to supporters (and me) last...
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