The city also received state funds for the new library and opened the doors to the new facility in November 2006.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

In March 2006 Texas judges upheld the state blue law that requires car dealerships to close either Saturday or Sunday each weekend.

The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

In April 2006, researchers from Secure Network and F-Secure published a report that warns of the large number of devices left in a visible state, and issued statistics on the spread of various Bluetooth services and the ease of spread of an eventual Bluetooth worm.

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

Although the more radical consequences of the global communication network predicted by some cyberspace proponents ( i. e. the diminishing of state influence envisioned by John Perry Barlow ) failed to materialize and the word lost some of its novelty appeal, it remains current as of 2006.

At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.

Since the July 2006 elections, the country is led by a semi-presidential, strongly-decentralized state.

* 2006 – Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, the president of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

* 2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

The preamble to thr 2006 Constitution repeated from the 1969 Constitution states that " Her Majesty's Government will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another state against their freely and democratically expressed wishes.

On December 15, 2006, the college filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleging that a decision by the state to block the college from participating in the state sponsored CareerLink job service amounted to a violation of the college's First Amendment rights.

In 2006 Montenegro seceded and became an independent state.

In addition, IQ and its correlation to health, violent crime, gross state product, and government effectiveness are the subject of a 2006 paper in the publication Intelligence.

A 2006 article stated that contemporary psychologic research often did not reflect substantial recent developments in psychometrics and " bears an uncanny resemblance to the psychometric state of the art as it existed in the 1950s.

Finding itself in a notably better state financially, in April 2006, Jeepster announced its first new signing in years, Reading-based act SixNationState.

In 2006 Yugoslavia disintegrated geo-politically in such a way that Serbia re-emerged as the national state, on which devolved rights and obligations of the former state of Yugoslavia.

The Estonian President Arnold Rüütel's state visit to Luxembourg was in May 2003, prime minister Andrus Ansip's in 2006.

At the end of December 2005, authorities estimated that in 2006, the oil profits would be 47 billion ouguiyas ( about US $ 180 million ) and represent a quarter of the state budget, according to RFI.

In 2006 the state government of South Australia revealed their plan to investigate the construction of the controversial Wellington Weir.

On March 23, the Saints announced that the team's two 2006 preseason games were to be played at Shreveport, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. After a $ 185 million renovation of the historic stadium, on April 6 the Saints released their 2006 schedule, with all home games scheduled to be played at the Superdome.

In 2006, to honor their return to Louisiana, the Saints wore a patch on their uniforms with an outline of the State of Louisiana with a fleur-de-lis superimposed, similar to the logo from the 1980s.

Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery And Freedom, 1777 – 1827 Louisiana State Univ Press, 2006.

Further addressed in 2006 documentary Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story, by a group at Louisiana State University.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding area, the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association temporarily relocated to the Ford Center, playing the majority of its home games there during the 2005 – 06 and 2006 – 07 seasons.

On September 26, 2006, Ebbers turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Prisons prison at Oakdale, Louisiana, the Oakdale Federal Corrections Institution to begin serving his sentence.

Since 2006, Louisiana Tech has played host to Summer Leadership School for Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from public school systems all over the United States.

In 2006, Bon Jovi made a $ 1 million donation to build 28 Habitat homes in Louisiana in partnership with low-income families on the hurricane-stricken coast.

Because of the catastrophic devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina upon the communities of southeastern Louisiana, the Hornets franchise temporarily relocated its base of operations to Oklahoma City in 2005 – 06 and 2006 – 07, posting records of 38 – 44 and 39 – 43 respectively.

Stanwood R. Duval, United States District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana as a result of the McWaters v. FEMA class-action, 7 February 2006 was set as the deadline for the official end of any further coverage of temporary housing costs for Katrina victims.

In 2006, Louisiana – Monroe joined the conference as a member in all sports when it left the Southland Conference, and Florida Atlantic joined the conference in all sports.

Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006.

In 2006, Witherspoon was among a group of actresses who went to New Orleans, Louisiana in a CDF project to bring to light the needs of Hurricane Katrina victims.

Haynes, Jr., was the father of Louisiana State University football star, Fred Haynes ( 1946 – 2006 ).

Grant Parish had the highest growth rate in central Louisiana in the five-year period between 2001 and 2006, according to projections of the United States Census Bureau.

* Roy McArthur " Hoppy " Hopkins ( born 1943 ) served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988 until his death in office in 2006.

* Christina Cuenca, Miss Louisiana USA 2006

An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York, Louisiana State U. Press, 2006.

Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, ( Louisiana: Cornerstone Books, 2006 reprint )

In 2006 the University of Louisiana at Monroe renamed its athletic teams Warhawks honoring Chennaults AVG Curtiss P-40 fighter aircraft nickname.

* Keith Tyson, Large Field Array, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, 2006