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Project Eyepatch: Local artist loses sight, gains vision for addressing health care cost

by Loki October 24, 2009

From donuts to dinosaurs, P.H. “Mister” Fred’s work over the last 20 years has been nothing if not topical…kind of like a rash or an ointment.  True to form, the New Orleans-based artist/performer/educator now finds himself in the center of the health care debate facing the same questions that baffle and intimidate the nation’s policy makers [...]

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Government Run Healthcare

by Loki August 16, 2009

This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department Of Energy and whose manufacture was declared safe by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, [...]

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Upcoming Benefits for Chris & Otter

by NOGoddess April 7, 2008

Please come out and enjoy these great upcoming events and help support Chris & Otter at the same time! And please help spread the word… Thanks to all – and especially to the folks at HumidCity for bringing me on board, very glad to be here! Andrea Garland (aka NOGoddess) Artisan Cheese & Wine Tasting [...]

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Ballad of the Corporate Whore

by BigEZBear March 29, 2008

From the T-P: The Jindal administration’s plans to reassess the details of a proposed $1.2 billion, 484-bed teaching hospital in downtown New Orleans are raising some concerns about the future of the facility designed to replace the city’s hurricane-damaged Charity Hospital. Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine said this week that he wants to hire [...]

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by BigEZBear January 24, 2008

That’s the number of vacancies in the LSU Hospital System, the entity in charge of Louisiana’s charity hospitals. Unfortunately, those vacancies cannot be filled at this time because Piyush Jindal has imposed a hiring freeze on all state agencies, regardless of need. I suppose it’s a matter of ethics, don’t you know. I imagine since [...]

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