New Orleans Credit to where credit is due, you have to give the devil his due, Jackson-Hewitt, the tax preparers, performed a public service in trying to calculate what businesses are going to have to pay, partially as a result of recalcitrant, Republican denials of full coverage protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and …
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The Havoc of Vote Suppression Using Provisional Ballots
New Orleans In trying to suppress citizen rights to vote the use of provisional ballots are a sop thrown to the disappointed voter largely to pretend that their votes will count. This fiction is starting to fall on hard times. In the elections being reported in Kenya’s national elections where millions waited in mile-long lines …
Louisiana Saddest State in USA, Damn, That Can’t be Right!
New Orleans Some math nerds from the University of Vermont thinking they would get some publicity for the U of V ran some numbers on ten million Twitter tweets by coding words as “happy” or “sad” and then fixing them on a map to determine which states are the happiest and which are the saddest. …