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There is No Work-Life Balance, Only Work-Life Choices

Former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch left women shaking their heads at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference when he said: “There’s no such thing as work-life balance,” Mr. Welch told the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference in New Orleans on June 28. “There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” The resulting Wall Street Journal Article “Welch: ‘No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance’” was one of the most pop

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Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

When this exciting first installment in the Jane Yellowrock series begins, renowned vampire killer Jane arrives in New Orleans to hopefully begin her newest job: hunting and killing a rogue vampire preying upon the city. Jane’s first meeting with her prospective employers, the vampire council of New Orleans, does not go particularly well when the lady representing them vamps out upon seeing and smelling Jane. Unused to dealing with “civilized” vampires, Jane reacts as she normally would in such

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LSU Hospital Plan Oversight Bill Stumbles in Louisiana Senate

The Senate Education Committee of the Louisiana Legislature likely killed House Bill 780 yesterday by deferring it, after a vote to report it favorably out of the committee failed. It’s doubtful that the bill can be resuscitated. This bill would prohibit the LSU Board of Supervisors from purchasing or expropriating land for the development of their proposed new academic medical center in New Orleans without approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget of its financing plan. Repr

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New Orleans may try business partnership approach (WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans)

NEW ORLEANS — Concerned the recovery from Hurricane Katrina is not generating business and jobs fast enough, the city is moving toward outsourcing most of its economic development efforts to a public-private partnership.

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