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For the first time in months, LSU System President F. King Alexander was able to relax a bit over the weekend. “I spent it with our daughter, at her...
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Louisiana’s $1.6-billion budget hole is doing nothing to help with the state’s $14-billion backlog of road and bridge projects. “We kicked the can down...
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“This is not, and should not be a partisan issue, Rep. John Bel Edwards said last Thursday. When it comes to Medicaid expansion, want to bet? The same...
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A bill to prohibit payroll deductions for union dues prompted hours of impassioned testimony Thursday. “Teachers, firemen, police — these are the people...
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A bill that would set up rules and the system for dispensing medical marijuana advanced out of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee Wednesday....
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Tuesday’s House Ways and Means hearing on bills to cap the film tax credit program brought out some of the big names in Louisiana movie-making, like...
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The House Ways and Means Committee started working through several revenue-raising bills Monday, including one that would increase the cigarette tax....
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“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” The naval adage, quoted in Wouk’s 1951 “The Caine Mutiny” and again in Heinlein’s 1973 ...
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The House Appropriations Committee has advanced a bill that would keep highway dollars committed to road work by limiting how much can be shifted to...
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The 2015 legislative session convenes today, with just 60 days to solve a one-point-six billion dollar budget deficit. Has it ever been this bad? “We’ve...