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Politics for Nov. 22, 2009 Thanksgiving isn’t Gov. Bobby Jindal’s only big dinner this week. The governor and first lady Supriya Jindal will attend President Barack Obama’s state dinner Tuesday for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, press spokesman Kyle Plotkin confirmed. State launches contracts Web site How billions of state dollars are spent on current contracts can now be found online. The new information on state government services contracts is an addition to LaTrac, the Louisiana Transparency and Accountability Portal, that launched in November 2008. Warden, legislators look at Angola, budget Angola’s warden Burl Cain told a group of legislators Friday that there are about 200 prisoners he would send home if he could. At an average cost of $54.50 a day to house a state prisoner, those 200 are costing the state about $4 million a year. Board balks at Boasso ruling The Louisiana Board of Ethics refused Friday to ratify a ruling by an administrative law judge panel in a campaign finance disclosure case involving Walter Boasso, a candidate in the 2007 governor’s race. Strain: State still waiting for funds The state agriculture department should have nearly all of $44.5 million in disaster recovery grants and loans in farmers’ hands by Christmas, the head of the agency told legislators Thursday. Roemer: Trim DOE, excess staff The state Department of Education is so bureaucratic and unresponsive to children that it needs to be overhauled from top to bottom, a member of the state’s top school board said Thursday. Officials put brakes on post-holiday vote State officials on Thursday nixed a push to hold a property tax election the day after Christmas for a St. Tammany Parish fire district. Members of the state Bond Commission weren’t swayed by a parish official’s offer to severely punish the fire chief for forgetting to schedule the election earlier. The oversight prompted the plea for an emergency election.

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