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  • The Cajun Democrat who could shake up the 2020 field

    03/21/2018 9:05:51 AM PDT · by rktman · 33 replies
    poltico.com ^ | 3/21/2018 | EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
    ‘I think he’s a remarkable talent … on the Bill Clinton, Barack Obama scale,’ says one admirer of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
  • Talk show host fired after on-air racial slur

    03/22/2006 3:16:47 PM PST · by cardinal4 · 76 replies · 3,386+ views
    Saint Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 03/22/2006 | Jake Wagman
    A radio personality at 550 KTRS was fired on the spot this morning after using the word “coon” on the air in a conversation about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Dave Lenihan was dismissed after what he called an inadvertent slip of the tongue. Within 20 minutes, station CEO Tim Dorsey apologized on the air to listeners and announced that Lenihan, who had been with the station for less than two weeks, had been let go. “I don’t know what was in Mr. Lenihan’s mind,” Dorsey said in an interview. “I know what I heard. I know it was reprehensible.”...
  • Anti-French feelings crop up in Louisiana, too

    03/28/2003 1:18:16 AM PST · by sarcasm · 10 replies · 350+ views
    AP ^ | March 28, 2003 | CAIN BURDEAU
    <p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- French bashing has even cropped up in Louisiana, the bastion of Cajun and Creole culture where "freedom fries" were out of the question when French President Jacques Chirac refused to back the war in Iraq.</p> <p>Now, however, a movement has sprung up to stop a Dec. 20 visit by Chirac. There are reports of harassment of French teachers, and the links to the French have become an issue in the state's attempt to capitalize on the bicentennial celebration of the Louisiana Purchase.</p>