- Lou
Gehrig Burnett
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- Lou
Gehrig Burnett's Forum
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column was selected as
"Best Regular
Column" by the
Louisiana Press Assn. for
2005, the second time in
four years he has been so
honored.
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About the Publisher
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- Lou
Gehrig Burnett
is a seasoned veteran of
national and local
politics. For 27 years,
he worked as a
Congressional aide on
Capitol Hill in
Washington, D.C. He
served 11 years as press
secretary for U.S. Rep.
F. Edward Hebert, D-LA
and 16 years as chief of
staff for U.S. Rep. Jerry
Huckaby, D-LA.
Upon retiring from the
federal government in
1993, Burnett moved to
Shreveport where he
worked with the Bossier
Press-Tribune
and Bossier
Post
and wrote a political
column which was carried
by 14 newspapers in north
Louisiana.
In 1997 and 1998, he
served as executive
assistant to Shreveport
Mayor Bo Williams.
He is now an
award-winning political
columnist for The
Forum Newsweekly and
publishes weekly the Fax-Net
Update,
which gives an
interesting
behind-the-scenes look at
politics on the local,
state and national
level.
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is also a regular
panelist on Time-Warner
Cable's Dateline
Shreveport
television show, a
co-host two days a week
on the Pat
Culverhouse Show
on SuperTalk 1340 KRMD
AM, and the political
analyst for KTAL-TV
Newschannel 6.
Burnett is also a
contributing writer
forThe Louisiana Report
on the website, Politicsla.com.
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is a frequent guest
speaker for various
Shreveport civic clubs
and organizations. Along
with the late James Q.
Wellborn, he founded the
Media Lunch Bunch, a
group of journalists who
meet every Tuesday at the
Holiday Inn-Bossier. It
is often attended by
officials, potential
candidates and other
dignitaries.
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- In
2002, Burnett's Forum
column
was awarded First Place
for "Best Continuing
Coverage of Governmental
Issues" by the
Louisiana Press
Association. In 2005, he
was honored with the
award for "Best
Regular Column."
Burnett, who is from
Houma in south Louisiana,
has a master's degree in
journalism from LSU and
has been named to
Personalities of the
South and Who's Who in
American Politics.
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- Fax-Net
Update
is a weekly analysis of
local, state and national
news events. It is a
unique publication in
northwest Louisiana, as
it is the only
publication delivered to
its subscribers in
electronic
format. Fax-Net
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Louisiana Secretary of
State as a sole
proprietor company.
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