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Summer Interview Series (Part One): Zack Kopplin
As promised, I’m kicking off a series of interviews with Louisiana’s leading progressive leaders and advocates, and to me, it seems appropriate to begin this series with a follow-up interview with one of Louisiana’s youngest progressive advocates, Zack Kopplin, the recent Baton Rouge Magnet High School graduate and incoming Rice University freshman who made national and international news fighting for the repeal of a law in Louisiana that allows the teaching of creationism and other religiously-based beliefs in the public school science classroom. Oh, and yesterday, he inspired a pretty hilarious Doonsebury comic. Recently, in its “Legislative Scorecard,” The Times-Picayune reported: Zack Kopplin,…
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Why Foster Campbell and the Louisiana PSC Are Right to Question the Proposed AT&T T-Mobile Merger
Yesterday, Scott McKay of The Hayride criticized Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell for having the nerve to “scrutinize” the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. Of course, Commissioner Campbell is completely within his rights to ask the telecommunications behemoth how this $39 billion merger would affect Louisiana. “It’s too big a deal to let it go through without getting everybody’s questions answered, and making sure this is a good deal for the consumer,” Campbell told Bloomberg News. Despite Mr. McKay’s protestations (which seem to be rooted in politics and not policy), the proposed merger is a very, very big deal, and…
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