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House Rules Committee member David Dreier, R-Calif., the ranking Republican, and committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., take part in a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

Democrats, GOP court Cao

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao dashed off the House floor Wednesday, headed for lunch at The White House to meet the administration’s top health-care adviser. Read more →

Hospital plan attacked

The Louisiana Legislature’s budget panel should postpone a vote on a deal that would eventually close LSU’s Earl K. Long Medical Center because too many questions remain unanswered, the chief executive of one of the area’s largest hospital companies told a community meeting Wednesday night. Read more →

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Democrats, GOP court Cao

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao dashed off the House floor Wednesday, headed for lunch at The White House to meet the administration’s top health-care adviser. Read more →

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City, Chamber applying for Google network

An ad hoc Baton Rouge team led by Mayor-President Kip Holden will try to convince search engine giant Google to bring its experimental fiber optic network to parts of Baton Rouge by focusing on five areas — education, college students, medical research, digital media and community redevelopment. Read more →

Education Feed

State aid to schools could receive boost

State aid to public schools could rise by $105 million this year, even without legislative approval, because of a little-noticed provision that Louisiana lawmakers approved last year, officials said Wednesday. Read more →

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Movie production to close downtown streets

Some downtown Baton Rouge streets in the area of Third and Convention streets will be closed to traffic today for the filming of the movie “The Ledge,” the Mayor’s Office said in a news release Tuesday. Read more →

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Historic Hickory Hill

JACKSON — When David McCants and his wife, Jane, settled in the Felicianas about 1809 on a Spanish land grant some eight miles from the present site of Jackson, they must have thought they were moving to the end of the world. Their tract was in a remote and unpopulated section of what is now East Feliciana Parish. Read more →

Food Feed

Make meals meatless

The Advocate booth at the Women’s Wellness Expo on Feb. 27 at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center was located next to a booth set up by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. Read more →

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