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She did it! MeeMaw, our "beloved" dictator governor extended the mask mandate until April 9. No freedom for us! EDITORIAL NOTE: This is the only ping I'm going to give on this subject. I am disgusted with the china virus.

Gov. Kay Ivey has extended Alabama’s coronavirus mask order requirement into the new year.The state’s current “Safer at Home” order has been extended until Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. The order requires masks to be work in public places when people are interacting within 6 feet of people from another household. Masks are also required in schools and colleges for grades second and above.“None of this is easy,” Ivey said. “I cannot think the people of Alabama enough for the sacrifices they are making.”

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey asks citizens to continue wearing masks and use social distancing during a coronavirus update in the state capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday June 29, 2020. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)AP Alabama is extending its mask order through Friday, Dec. 11 at 5 p.m., Gov. Kay Ivey announced today.Ivey announced there were some changes to the state’s “Safer at Home” order first announced in July as the state battles the coronavirus pandemic.“I said from the beginning you cannot have a life without a livelihood,” Ivey said, adding businesses could resume “normal operations” as...

Weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans and worsened the medical plight of the city's poor, then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the publicly run Charity Hospital would not reopen, even though the military had scrubbed the building to medical-ready standards, the retired Army general who oversaw the work said. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Lt. Gen. Russel Honore said Blanco told him in late September 2005 the 20-story building that served the region's poor residents would not reopen. "'Ma'am, we got the hospital clean, my people report ... if you want to use it,'" Honore recalled telling Blanco....

Having missed a deadline to challenge a subpoena requiring Gov. Kathleen Blanco to testify in the St. Rita's nursing home trial, the state attorney general's office asked for an emergency extension and, barring that, requested that Blanco give a closed-door deposition rather than be cross-examined on her response to Hurricane Katrina in open court. Defense attorneys subpoenaed Blanco on July 10 in connection with the upcoming negligent homicide trial for Sal and Mabel Mangano, who owned the St. Bernard Parish nursing home where 35 residents drowned during Katrina. snip Judge Jerome Winsberg is expected to issue a ruling on the...

A victim of Hurricane Katrina is accused of breaking into the Louisiana State Capitol, shouting obscenities, and yelling out Governor Kathleen Blanco's name. Louisiana State Police say Andre B. Smith, 29, of Gretna, gained entry into the capitol around 8:30 Tuesday night by throwing a metal trash can through a glass door on the east side of the building. Gretna is a suburb of New Orleans, located in Jefferson Parish. A police report of the incident says Smith said he was a hurricane victim. "He advised he was staying in a shack in Plaquemine and was aggravated about the aftermath...

Reported by the Associated Press Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom says that he has lost confidence in Governor Kathleen Blanco's ability to lead and is trying to convince retired U.S. Senator John Breaux to run for her seat in 2007. When asked if he thought Blanco could turn the state around, Odom said, "No, I don't." Odom made his remarks after a speech he delivered during a West Monroe-West Ouachita Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the West Monroe Convention Center. Odom said he and "several others" - who he didn't identify - were putting together a poll that they hope to...

**EXCLUSIVE** On the heels of the recall effort against Governor Kathleen Blanco, a memo has been issued to the heads of all state agencies, THE DEAD PELICAN has learned. The memo, issued today, states that "No employee in the classified service and no member of the Commission shall take active part in an effort to recall from office an elected public official, or seek, solicit or attempt to coerce any person including any employee in the classified service and any member of the Commission into participating in any such effort or signing a recall petition except that nothing contained herein...

BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 22 - She is struggling to rebuild a shattered state. But along the way, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana is also working to repair a wounded reputation - her own. She has been mocked as weepy and indecisive by radio talk show hosts who deride her as "momma governor." She has feuded with the White House, which did not invite her to a recent announcement on levee protection. She has been criticized on Capitol Hill by Republicans as having made a "dysfunctional" response to Hurricane Katrina. And through it all, Ms. Blanco, a 63-year-old Democrat,...

Kathleen "MeeMaw" Blanco goes in the dock starting in a few minutes. Live video at this link:http://www.katrina.house.gov/ Scroll down to Live video stream