From Ken--- When a backwards and utterly undemocratic hermit dictatorship like Burma or North Korea appoints a "new" leader, there is no suspense...

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New Blog from Ken: Who's the unfairest in the land? The Tangipahoa School Board will probably stop a charter school from offering an alternativ...

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The coach who can't be firedIn November with great sadness I reported that Southeastern had opted to fire Head Football Coach Mike Lucas, obviously be...

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Election results underwhelmingLast night for the first time in weeks I ate a big, fast food dinner.You can easily imagine how I felt afterwards.That's...

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Punish the achievers, Reward failure By Ken Benitez For years the joke about the Tangipahoa School System was that if a teacher or principal ...

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 For whom the bell tolls By Ken Benitez Ever since the desegregation plan was unveiled by the Tangipahoa School Board more than two years a...

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Tangi School Board and our money By CB Forgotston   On April 30, the voters of Tangipahoa Parish crushed four tax propositions on the ballot.&...

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Sign purchased by a voter   People have their say After over two years of behind-the-scenes plotting by the Tangipahoa Parish School Board (...

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By Ken Benitez       In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Profiles in Courage", John F. Kennedy told the stories of heroic s...

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If you are a school board employee, your assailant wants to send you flowers By Ken Benitez Too strong an analogy? How about this: The thief who...

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From Governor Bobby Jindal---We again had the opportunity to announce more great news for Louisiana's economy on Tuesday, when we joined Bradken Engin...

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The vote of the Tangipahoa School Board Tuesday night to defy the clear will of the people was stunning and without precedent. In this Tea Party year...

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Now it's official. US District Judge Ivan "The Terrible" Lemelle has ordered the Tangipahoa School Board to put three tax propositions on the April 2...

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First, let me share with you the exact order issued today in the long-standing Tangipahoa School board desegregation case:   "IT IS ORDERED tha...

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Remember a few years ago when the notorious "meter maids" in downtown New Orleans were widely condemned for overzealous parking ticket writing? In ...

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On Wednesday the Tangipahoa Board of Election Supervisors promulgated the returns from the October 2nd election. Admittedly, that was a pretty boring...

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Alabama historian Winston Broom has written a new account of the storied siege of Vicksburg that challenges the conventional wisdom of Civil War buffs...

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Military historians and Civil War buffs like me have been fascinated by Pickett's Charge up Cemetery Ridge for almost 150 years. It is arguably the m...

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This is neither the first time nor the last time that I quote Willie Nelson from his song, "Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth", in reference to the ...

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In a recent letter to the editor of the Hammond paper, Tangipahoa Parish School Board member Al Link defended his ethically-challenged, colleague Dann...

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If you could follow me around for a week or so as I travel across the Florida Parishes you would notice something curious. In Slidell the Sheriff's Of...

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Saturday was a beautiful day in Tangipahoa Parish.  The sun was shining; the temperature hit a high of 75 degrees.  It seemed that people we...

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Finally, we the voters have a problem that no one among us can blame on the reviled "politicians". On Saturday, only 5.1% of approximately 19,500 vot...

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So the fix is in, or that's the conventional wisdom. From those more intelligent, or at least better connected than you or me, the narrative goes lik...

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Traditionally, when only a tax proposition is on the ballot, voter turn-out is low. Of course, politicians know this well and often use this tactic t...

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If the Tangipahoa School Board's Tax figures are correct, it might be cheaper to send the magnet students to the University of Hawaii. Where should...

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The fact that some property owners are paying for a magnet tax levied in an election they were excluded from, and the fact that some voters in Ponchat...

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The hijinks of the Tangipahoa School Board are now so outrageous, they are actually funny, even hilarious at times. Just in time for carnival season. ...

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If you believed that our school board was capable or willing to operate a successful magnet school program, then accept the blame, forgive yourself, a...

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Tuesday night as the Tangipahoa School Board met in Amite and heard the news that Judge Ivan Lemelle had turned down their proposed magnet tax renewal...

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Just what we need, another school board controversy. Tuesday night the Tangipahoa School Board will place  big targets on their backs and hold u...

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Today (Thursday) the Tangipahoa School Board is on the agenda for the State Bond Commission to approve a March 27 tax election for 9 mills in Hammond....

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After spending most of 2008 and 2009 conceding almost all the issues in the 40-year-old desegregation case, the Tangipahoa School Board has finally de...

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At least we have our priorities straight. The righteous indignation of LSU fans after the Tigers' heart-breaking loss to Old Miss shows that Louisian...

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Allow me to say something contrary to the prevailing political wisdom in Tangipahoa Parish. While our school system is headed downward in every categ...

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