10 Signs Like This: February 2006

Array (gov sig)Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs, 9:30 amSCR2 Parishes - Directs the attorney general and the secretary of state to study the possibility of combining the parishes of Orleans, Plaquemines, Jefferson, and St. Bernard into one municipalitySCR10 Voters/Voting - Provides for the creation of a task force to identify and locate displaced Louisiana citizens and to aid in their return to LouisianaSB17 Government Organization - Establishes the Louisiana Recovery Authority as a statutory entitySB40 Government Organization - Establishes the Louisiana Recovery AuthoritySB47 Government Organization - Provides for the governor’s office of homeland security and emergency preparedness as an agency in the office of the governorHCR14 Military Affairs/Natl Gd - Requests the adjutant general to bestow medals of honor on members of LANG for service during Hurricanes Katrina and RitaSenate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs, 10 amSB23 Tax/Taxation - Authorizes the Department of Revenue to grant a credit against severance tax for the one-time payment of such tax required of oil and gas severers by Act 446 of the 2005 RS.SB34 Tax Exemptions - Provides for barges to be included as vessels in the sales tax exemption for purchases for vessels used in interstate commerce.SB36 Tax/Income/Personal - Prevents an increase in Louisiana income tax if a hurricane casualty loss is claimed on a 2004 federal income tax return.SB37 Tax/Ad Valorem - Excludes from the proration provisions of Act 66 of 2005 1ES for damaged or destroyed property, such property in any parish for which the assessment rolls for tax year 2005 were certified, or partially or conditionally certified, by the tax commission prior to December 6, 2005.House Committee on Judiciary, 11 am HB9 Emergency Preparedness - Requires the office of homeland security and emergency preparedness to establish wireless communications networksHB55 Parish/Orleans - Abolishes the offices of recorder of mortgages, register of conveyances, and custodian of notarial archives and merges these offices in an elected recorder of real properties for the parish of OrleansHB70 Emergency Preparedness - Requires the office of emergency preparedness to develop a comprehensive and coordinated evacuation plan for all coastal and hurricane-prone parishesHB74 Retirement/Judges - Provides relative to retirement eligibility of certain judgesHB88 Emergency Preparedness - Provides for duties of the state office of homeland security and emergency preparednessFor a live web cast of House committee hearings, click here.For a live web cast of Senate committee hearings, click here.In the News“Levee Unification Encounters Opposition” by Robert Travis Scott, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: SB8 and SB9“Bill to Reform New Orleans Levees Approved” by The Associated Press, The New York Times, 02/08/2006.“Editorial: Divided We Flood” The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006“Bailout Bills for LA Insurers Advance” by Jan Moller, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: HB45 and SB14“Committee Approves State Tax Deduction” by Ed Anderson, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: HB21“Panel Looks at Rescheduling Election” by Ed Anderson, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: HB18, HB27, HB28, and HB29Links to Newly Filed House and Senate Bills Education:SB41, SB48Environment/Land Use:HB91, HB92, HB94, HB95, HB96SB46Housing/Insurance:HB92, HB97, HB98, HB99SB43, SB45, SB49Employment:SB41, SB48Tax/State Financing:HB90, HB93Government Reorganization:HB91, HB92, HB98, HB99SB42, SB44, SB45, SB47, SB49 Contribute InformationIf you or your organization is tracking legislation included in the Special Session, please email katrinalegislation@gmail.com to include your analysis in our email updates.
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Again, I will continue to post more pictures and stories about the deployment especially in the next month to come, but for the moment, here’s the CO:I have been silent these many months, because Major Erik Peterson has done an absolutely incredible job with the blog and keeping our friends, families and loved ones read in on the day-to-day activities of our lives. I will break that silence only for a moment, to open the door to the “rest of the story.” However, as is now appropriate, Maj Peterson will share those details of our story and, ultimately, close the account of Team Med-Fah at a future time and date of his choosing.We left in May 2005 and were whisked through a series of classes and events all deemed necessary for our roles as American advisors in Iraq. Transition the fight to the Iraqi Army. I learned that Iraqi civilians can cry tears of joy in the middle of company sized firefight; because Iraqi soldiers and their advisors came to their help, bandaged their wounds, evacuated them like brothers and provided them the best medical care the US can give. They can “escape” when necessary and snap right back into action ~ to fight the good fight, to help a brother, to help the unknown civilian. Now…back to Erik.LtCol Roger Garay, USMCCommanding Officer, Military Transition Team3d Battalion, 2d Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division
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It tastes like summer–a nice trick made possible by the fact that if you whirl fresh basil leaves with olive oil in a food processor and then freeze the resulting mess in a baggie, it can be thawed and made into a very fresh-tasting pesto months later.Because the focaccia is so much thicker than a Neapolitan pizza, it feeds an army!
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It tastes like summer–a nice trick made possible by the fact that if you whirl fresh basil leaves with olive oil in a food processor and then freeze the resulting mess in a baggie, it can be thawed and made into a very fresh-tasting pesto months later.Because the focaccia is so much thicker than a Neapolitan pizza, it feeds an army!
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It tastes like summer–a nice trick made possible by the fact that if you whirl fresh basil leaves with olive oil in a food processor and then freeze the resulting mess in a baggie, it can be thawed and made into a very fresh-tasting pesto months later.Because the focaccia is so much thicker than a Neapolitan pizza, it feeds an army!
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Array (gov sig)Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs, 9:30 amSCR2 Parishes - Directs the attorney general and the secretary of state to study the possibility of combining the parishes of Orleans, Plaquemines, Jefferson, and St. Bernard into one municipalitySCR10 Voters/Voting - Provides for the creation of a task force to identify and locate displaced Louisiana citizens and to aid in their return to LouisianaSB17 Government Organization - Establishes the Louisiana Recovery Authority as a statutory entitySB40 Government Organization - Establishes the Louisiana Recovery AuthoritySB47 Government Organization - Provides for the governor’s office of homeland security and emergency preparedness as an agency in the office of the governorHCR14 Military Affairs/Natl Gd - Requests the adjutant general to bestow medals of honor on members of LANG for service during Hurricanes Katrina and RitaSenate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs, 10 amSB23 Tax/Taxation - Authorizes the Department of Revenue to grant a credit against severance tax for the one-time payment of such tax required of oil and gas severers by Act 446 of the 2005 RS.SB34 Tax Exemptions - Provides for barges to be included as vessels in the sales tax exemption for purchases for vessels used in interstate commerce.SB36 Tax/Income/Personal - Prevents an increase in Louisiana income tax if a hurricane casualty loss is claimed on a 2004 federal income tax return.SB37 Tax/Ad Valorem - Excludes from the proration provisions of Act 66 of 2005 1ES for damaged or destroyed property, such property in any parish for which the assessment rolls for tax year 2005 were certified, or partially or conditionally certified, by the tax commission prior to December 6, 2005.House Committee on Judiciary, 11 am HB9 Emergency Preparedness - Requires the office of homeland security and emergency preparedness to establish wireless communications networksHB55 Parish/Orleans - Abolishes the offices of recorder of mortgages, register of conveyances, and custodian of notarial archives and merges these offices in an elected recorder of real properties for the parish of OrleansHB70 Emergency Preparedness - Requires the office of emergency preparedness to develop a comprehensive and coordinated evacuation plan for all coastal and hurricane-prone parishesHB74 Retirement/Judges - Provides relative to retirement eligibility of certain judgesHB88 Emergency Preparedness - Provides for duties of the state office of homeland security and emergency preparednessFor a live web cast of House committee hearings, click here.For a live web cast of Senate committee hearings, click here.In the News“Levee Unification Encounters Opposition” by Robert Travis Scott, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: SB8 and SB9“Bill to Reform New Orleans Levees Approved” by The Associated Press, The New York Times, 02/08/2006.“Editorial: Divided We Flood” The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006“Bailout Bills for LA Insurers Advance” by Jan Moller, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: HB45 and SB14“Committee Approves State Tax Deduction” by Ed Anderson, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: HB21“Panel Looks at Rescheduling Election” by Ed Anderson, The Times Picayune, 02/08/2006.RE: HB18, HB27, HB28, and HB29Links to Newly Filed House and Senate Bills Education:SB41, SB48Environment/Land Use:HB91, HB92, HB94, HB95, HB96SB46Housing/Insurance:HB92, HB97, HB98, HB99SB43, SB45, SB49Employment:SB41, SB48Tax/State Financing:HB90, HB93Government Reorganization:HB91, HB92, HB98, HB99SB42, SB44, SB45, SB47, SB49 Contribute InformationIf you or your organization is tracking legislation included in the Special Session, please email katrinalegislation@gmail.com to include your analysis in our email updates.
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Again, I will continue to post more pictures and stories about the deployment especially in the next month to come, but for the moment, here’s the CO:I have been silent these many months, because Major Erik Peterson has done an absolutely incredible job with the blog and keeping our friends, families and loved ones read in on the day-to-day activities of our lives. I will break that silence only for a moment, to open the door to the “rest of the story.” However, as is now appropriate, Maj Peterson will share those details of our story and, ultimately, close the account of Team Med-Fah at a future time and date of his choosing.We left in May 2005 and were whisked through a series of classes and events all deemed necessary for our roles as American advisors in Iraq. Transition the fight to the Iraqi Army. I learned that Iraqi civilians can cry tears of joy in the middle of company sized firefight; because Iraqi soldiers and their advisors came to their help, bandaged their wounds, evacuated them like brothers and provided them the best medical care the US can give. They can “escape” when necessary and snap right back into action ~ to fight the good fight, to help a brother, to help the unknown civilian. Now…back to Erik.LtCol Roger Garay, USMCCommanding Officer, Military Transition Team3d Battalion, 2d Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division
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It tastes like summer–a nice trick made possible by the fact that if you whirl fresh basil leaves with olive oil in a food processor and then freeze the resulting mess in a baggie, it can be thawed and made into a very fresh-tasting pesto months later.Because the focaccia is so much thicker than a Neapolitan pizza, it feeds an army!
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It tastes like summer–a nice trick made possible by the fact that if you whirl fresh basil leaves with olive oil in a food processor and then freeze the resulting mess in a baggie, it can be thawed and made into a very fresh-tasting pesto months later.Because the focaccia is so much thicker than a Neapolitan pizza, it feeds an army!
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It tastes like summer–a nice trick made possible by the fact that if you whirl fresh basil leaves with olive oil in a food processor and then freeze the resulting mess in a baggie, it can be thawed and made into a very fresh-tasting pesto months later.Because the focaccia is so much thicker than a Neapolitan pizza, it feeds an army!
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