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• Too Old to Hold Public Office? (KLFY Lafayette)

  State Representative Rickey Hardy has proposed a bill to put an age limit on elected officials. Hardy says he feels anyone serving over the age of 70 is just too old. He also says he hopes to make it law that anyone over 70 cannot hold public office.

• Major wealth divide between white women and women of color (Louisiana Weekly)

  Single Black and Latino women are particularly hard hit, owning only a penny of wealth for every dollar owned by their male counterparts and a fraction of a penny for every dollar owned by single white women, according to the report released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development at a Capitol Hill symposium on the economic security of women.

• HANO proves doubters wrong, lines up plans for stimulus money (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

  Defying earlier predictions, the Housing Authority of New Orleans on Tuesday will submit a balanced budget and obligate all of its federal stimulus money, said David Gilmore, leader of a federally hired turnaround team that arrived in November.Gilmore had...

• Health secretary says budget cuts could worsen (Opelousas Daily World)

  BATON ROUGE — A looming midyear deficit will worsen budget troubles in the state health department and could disrupt proposals for balancing the department's budget next year, Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine told lawmakers Tuesday.

• Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists (KPLC Lake Charles)

  The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street.