CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Governor Jindal’s Campaign Finance Director Assaulted After Jindal Fundraiser

    From The Times-Picayune: Gov. Bobby Jindal’s chief campaign fund-raiser is recovering from injuries she suffered in a Friday night altercation with a group of people in the French Quarter, the governor’s office said Monday. Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend suffered a concussion and a fractured nose and jaw in the incident, which happened after a fundraising event at Brennan’s Restaurant on behalf of the Louisiana Republican Party on Friday evening. Jindal was at the fund-raising event at the restaurant, but was not present when the incident occurred. Kyle Plotkin, a Jindal spokesman, said Bautsch had surgery during…

  • Figures.

    From the NY Times: To encourage deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, a 1995 law offered generous incentives in the form of relief from royalties, then roughly 12 percent of the per-barrel price. The law was seen as a useful way to increase domestic production and reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil. Prices were low at the time, so the law contained a threshold of $28 per barrel (in 1994 dollars) beyond which royalties would resume. But this applied only to already signed leases. There was no clear language in the bill specifying price thresholds for new leases…

  • And Kudos to Paul Carty

    Here.