<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Louisiana</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/la?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><description>Louisiana</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[I'll Go by the Book,  As Long as It's My Mother's]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35273-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35273-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Book wasn't cool. It showed up at my house, sent by my mother, and got tucked away.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Plans Repairs To Public Housing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6017-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6017-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The District's public housing authority will borrow nearly $78 million on the private bond market to shore up and improve aging public housing complexes in the next three years, federal and local officials said yesterday.]]></description><author> Debbi Wilgoren</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family, Academy Mourn Midshipman Who Fell From Dorm]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42566-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42566-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The body of Jay Michael Dixon, 21, was found Saturday outside a campus dormitory.]]></description><author> Maureen Fan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury Says Official's Mass Firing Of Whites Was Racially Based]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14124-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14124-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New Orleans's first black district attorney discriminated against 43 whites when he fired them en masse and replaced them with blacks upon taking office in 2003, a federal jury decided Wednesday. The jury awarded the employees about $1.8 million in back pay and damages.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nats Choose Announcer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11623-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11623-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jim Clarke, a former radio and public address announcer in New Orleans, is chosen to be the Nats' public address announcer.]]></description><author> Martin Weil</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shirley Ann Grau's House, on the Street Where You Live]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15645-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15645-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em> An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.</em>]]></description><author> JONATHAN YARDLEY</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital One to Buy New Orleans Bank for $5.35B]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12268-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12268-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The deal gives McLean-based Capital One, best known for selling credit cards and other loans on TV or through the mail, its first network of branches. Hibernia has the dominant market share for retail deposits in Louisiana.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red Riding Hood With a Cajun Beat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64388-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64388-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fat Tuesday has come and gone, but the rollicking rhythms of a New Orleans jamboree are still pulsing at Imagination Stage, now presenting the new children's musical "Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood." With the exuberance of a Mardi Gras float wheeling through the Big Easy, writer and composer Joan Cushing has turned a 2001 picture book (text by Mike Artell, illustrations by Jim Harris) into a clever stage production whose tunes explode with Louisiana zest.]]></description><author> Celia Wren</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marking Washington's Birthday]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40413-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40413-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There were probably only two places to party this Presidents' Day weekend: Mount Vernon or this bustling border town where George Washington, or Jorge Washington, as he is also called here,  is venerated with a vengeance.]]></description><author> Sylvia Moreno</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Love Song': A Familiar Yet  Tuneless Southern Ditty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43111-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43111-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In "A Love Song for Bobby Long," John Travolta sets off on the journey from movie star to character actor, a treacherous venture undertaken by many a middle-aged Heartthrob facing the great, gaping What Comes After.]]></description><author> Ann Hornaday</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New and Notable Movies, Arts, Sports and More]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25244-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25244-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Concerts <br>   ODETTA  -- Today at 2 p.m. The folk singer's songs have influenced Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Tracy Chapman. The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Rd., Vienna. $20. 703-218-6500 or 703-938-2404.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Case of Sally Miller]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22519-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22519-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[     THE LOST GERMAN SLAVE GIRL <br>   The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans ]]></description><author> Jonathan Yardley,</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Corner of La. Mourns 6 Soldiers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64134-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64134-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HOUMA, La., Jan. 10 -- Bradley Bergeron grew up, as they say around here, "way down on the bayou," a sliver of high ground south of town called Upper Little Caillou. Bergeron was no homecoming king, no valedictorian, just a nice kid who blended in with his class. But he was a star on that day last October when the "Black Sheep," this town's National Guard unit, left for Iraq.]]></description><author> Manuel Roig-Franzia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Time to Celebrate Automotive Design Diversity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57942-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57942-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LOS ANGELES -- I once panned the wide-angled, hip-hop, big-tire looks of the Cadillac Escalade sport-utility vehicle that's so popular here and across the rest of the country. I was the victim of acculturation, an assimilationist obliteration of the funk of my black New Orleans childhood.]]></description><author> Warren Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Leaders Named to Head Panel on Tax Code Reform]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55233-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55233-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former senators Connie Mack (R-Fla.) and John Breaux (D-La.) will be tapped today to lead a bipartisan panel tasked to remake  and simplify the unwieldy U.S. tax code, administration officials said last night.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood Reels In Another Kingfish]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52154-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52154-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[King of all media:    James Carville , the ubiquitous pundit, author and screen star (remember "The War Room" and "K Street"?), can lay claim to another title: movie mogul. He's the co-producer behind a remake of "All the King's Men," now filming in his beloved Louisiana.]]></description><author> Richard Lei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Jambalaya That Doesn't Keep]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51900-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51900-2005Jan5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[      SOUTHERN FRIED DIVORCE <br>   A Woman Unleashes Her Hound and His Dog in the Big Easy ]]></description><author> Jonathan Yardley,</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safety, Clean Fuels May Steal Thunder at Auto Shows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23756-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23756-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Yuletide is a peculiar season in the automotive industry. There are the usual closing events -- corporate parties, inventory-dumping year-end sales and annual sales reports. But there also is a rush to begin anew, a preoccupation manifested in preparations for upcoming car shows.]]></description><author> Warren Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans's Musical Gumbo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18002-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18002-2004Dec21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If  you're on a budget this holiday, it might not be wise to buy "Doctors, Professors, Kings &#38; Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans." Not because it costs $50. Heck, no: That's cheap. But because once you've heard, seen -- and seemingly tasted -- this terrific box set, you'll rush out and spend whatever it takes to get to the Big Easy, pronto.]]></description><author> Michael Deeds</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tauzin to Head Drug Trade Group]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3504-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3504-2004Dec15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/la</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 20:05:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Retiring Rep. W.J. "Billy" Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce until he stepped down from that post earlier this year after complaints about his job hunting, will be the trade group's new chief.]]></description><author> Judy Sarasohn</author></item></channel></rss>