One Louisiana politician's brainstorm for stopping generational welfare — welfare recipients having children who also end up on assistance — is giving birth to huge controversy. The idea? Offering $1,000 to poor women to get their tubes tied.
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The New Orleans 100 is a worldwide initiative to "highlight and encourage discussion among millions about 100 of the most innovative and world-changing ideas to take root in the city since Katrina." Creative maverick think tank All Day Buffet wanted to combat the negative press New Orleans receives in mainstream media by spotlighting the best things happening in the city, and let me tell you, it wasn't hard. There's a wealth of inspiring projects going on these days in the Crescent City in the worlds of art and architecture, culture, music, entrepreneurship, education, non-profit, and social innovation.
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When Keyshia Cole performed at the Essence Music Festival over the weekend, she brought along a furry friend to keep her company in New Orleans – I guess not all pets love giving kisses as this one looks shy about showing any affection! Not only was the miniature schnauzer hesitant to pucker up, it proved impossible for both Keyshia and her bashful pet to face the camera at the same time. Oh well, they're still super cute in the piccys below.
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Congress will withhold $5.8 billion in New Orleans flood-defense funding because Louisiana has not offered the $1.8 billion match necessary to trigger federal funds. The Army Corps of Engineers will not go through with levee and other construction projects necessary to prevent another Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the nation, wants the feds to give the state 30 years to pay their share.
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Convicted rapists and other sex offenders now face chemical castration in Louisiana, under legislation signed on the day the US Supreme Court struck down the state's child-rape death penalty. California was the first state to subject its sex offenders to the procedure popularized by the Nazis who wanted to prevent "undesirables" from procreating.
Upon signing the law, Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal said: "I am glad we have taken such strong measures .
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Jamie Lynn Spears and fiancé Casey Aldridge have decided to settle down in LA — Louisiana, that is! The young couple and soon-to-be parents have purchased a modest but charming home on one acre in Kentwood, LA, according to Real Estalker. The cape-esque home sits on very private, heavily wooded property and features a classic Southern covered front porch, a big red barn, and a separate shed.
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Three recent upsets in special elections for US House of Representative seats in the deep South, have Democrats rethinking their political fortunes in the region. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson famously said: "There goes the South for a generation" as he signed the Civil Rights Act. But recent and unlikely victories mean it might be time for the Democrats to draw a new map.
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Louisiana's Angola State Prison sits on a former plantation that was populated with slaves from Angola, Africa. Twice a year, the prison, which is larger than the island of Manhattan, holds a prisoner rodeo. Yeehaw!!!
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Baton Rouge's Cat Haven has one of the largest feral programs in the area. Even though they were just established in 1999, they have already trapped, neutered, and adopted or released almost 3,000 kitties! This process not only helps limit the numbers of wild cats in the area but can also save hundreds of kittens each year from a future life outdoors by transferring them into the haven's adoption program at a young age. 
Continuing a streak of sad news, this morning a female student killed two classmates and then turned the gun on herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. There were 20 students in the classroom at the time, and no shots were fired outside of the classroom. Officers responding to 911 calls from inside the classroom arrived on the scene to find the three already dead.
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