washingtonpost.com - LouisianaLouisianaBipartisan Leaders Named to Head Panel on Tax Code Reform- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55233-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/l... The Case of Sally Miller- May 6, 2005 THE LOST GERMAN SLAVE GIRL The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleanshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22519-2005Jan19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Capital One to Buy New Orleans Bank for $5.35B- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12268-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/l... It's Time to Celebrate Automotive Design Diversity- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57942-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/l... Red Riding Hood With a Cajun Beat- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64388-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/l... Hollywood Reels In Another Kingfish- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52154-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/l... Marking Washington's Birthday- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40413-2005Feb20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Safety, Clean Fuels May Steal Thunder at Auto Shows- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23756-2004Dec23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... 'Love Song': A Familiar Yet Tuneless Southern Ditty- May 6, 2005 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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43111-2005Jan27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/... Shirley Ann Grau's House, on the Street Where You Live- May 6, 2005 An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable andor neglected books from the past.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15645-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/l... |