Pelican State


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He's a marsh man, having grown up in the Pelican State, and is in the Bowfishing Association of America Hail of Fame.
Pelican State Credit Union, Baton Rouge, La., has recognized the value of the CDCFC program as a way to assist its 33,530 members.
But even as they plow funds into Christian schools like these, some legislators in the Pelican State say they don't want tax funding to go the schools of other religions.
Baton Rouge, LA, May 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The Pelican State has since its manufacturing industry dwindle over the years with job losses in the multiple thousands.
Louisiana has adopted some key elements of the Florida reform strategy as part of the Pelican State's overall K-12 reform effort.
The incentive program has grown rapidly during the last decade, despite a 2005 legislative analyst's finding that the Pelican State was recouping only 16 percent to 18 percent of the amount it was spending to attract production.
Fat Tuesday is the founder of the Louisiana Association of Alcoholic Beverage Licensees (LAABL), a lobbying group designed to protect the interests of the Pelican State's beverage alcohol industry.
Interior Secretary Salazar made the official announcement of the delisting - "Today we can say the brown pelican is back," he declared - at a fitting site: the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, which bills itself, excuse the expression, as the Pelican State.
30, in time to cover Hurricane Gustav's track through The Pelican State. Cummins worked at KARK for more than seven years before the station chose not to renew his contract in May.
Louisiana, long known as the "Pelican State," has been a key partner in efforts to recover the pelican in the Gulf Coast region.
Perhaps, in the final analysis, the Pelican state and its powerful and spicy politics will decide at least the fate of the renewables portion of the energy bill, It was proposed that every electric utility would have to supply 10% of electricity from renewable sources (excluding hydro).
Army Corps of Engineers, whose decisions at Old River can cut it dry or fill it with water and silt." Fortunately, with the help of the Sierra Club, the Corps and the Pelican State have developed a conservation-oriented master plan, and local Club activists are busy making sure it's implemented.