"If you're not living with it you forget. To the north of us, once the media takes it out of people's faces, they tend to forget," she said. In fact, attention to the spill story on the evening newcasts of ABC,
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eve isk, One of those with a pending claim is Randy "T-Ran" Borne. This was going to be the year he finally got out from under.
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eve isk, At 30, the Golden Meadow, La., man had overcome a drug habit, gotten custody of his three daughters and begun building his life. What started as a 4-by-8-foot plywood shed in his yard had grown into a retail business with a walk-in cooler from which Borne sold the shrimp, crabs and minnows he caught on his 3,900-acre bayou lease and Catfish Lake behind it.
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eve isk, "If they give me a good chunk of money, I've got to take it," he says. "But what if that oil that's sunk down in the Gulf keeps killing things? What happens if there's no shrimp next year. Where's BP then?"
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eve isk, When the White House oil spill commission solicited public comment, Lafayette, La., crawfisherman and Cajun musician Drew Landry decided to put his in verse.
