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“Who the hell cares what Grover says?”Apparently the Senate does, while the House could not care less. The Senate passed their “new and improved” version…
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Both the House and Senate worked over the weekend. Yet even Revenue Secretary Tim Barfield – the governor’s point man on tax increases and tax offsets --…
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24 years after the legislature authorized the prescribing of medical marijuana, the House has approved the Senate’s bill to set up a system for filling…
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The bill that was supposed to save the budget from Governor Bobby Jindal’s veto pen sank in House committee Wednesday.Jack Donahue’s SB 284, known as the…
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Remember that children’s game—Barrel of Monkeys? The House appears to be playing it, as they link tax bills together by amendments, trying to preserve…
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State Treasurer John Kennedy says when it comes to fixing the state budget, the legislature is doing it all wrong.“Your goal ought not to be, ‘We need to…
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When a woman in Louisiana has a mammogram or breast ultrasound, she typically waits for a phone call from her doctor. She’ll either get the all-clear, or…
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In what’s become a sad tradition, the folks in yellow shirts came to the capitol again Saturday. It was their last chance this session to beg for more…
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A bill that would require the House Ways and Means and Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs committees to get together and find fixes for the state’s tax…
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Today the full House considers HB 2, the Capital Outlay bill. That’s the list of state and local construction projects authorized for the next fiscal…