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On Wednesday, House Ways and Means took up tax-raising measures that could help fill the $600 million budget gap the state is facing next fiscal year,…
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The House Education committee advanced a bill Tuesday changing TOPS allocations during a budget shortfall. Committee chair Nancy Landry is the author.“If…
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“It’s not a perfect bill," said Baton Rouge Representative Steve Carter of his HB 971, a bill which would prohibit some public university athletic teams…
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It’s been discussed and studied, more than once.“I got a nice report, plenty of paper. Nothing’s happened.”So Senator Conrad Appel of Metairie says it’s…
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Nearly two thousand students from colleges and universities around Louisiana showed up at the state Capitol on Wednesday. About a dozen lawmakers were in…
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“The people out there – all they hear is that TOPS is over,” West Monroe Senator Mike Walsworth complained Monday.Walsworth is one of many lawmakers who…
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Industrial leaders in the Houma-Thibodaux area heard from Governor-elect John Bel Edwards Tuesday. He began the luncheon speech by advising them the state…
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Sometimes it seems like the Jindal administration has been all about wooing business and industry, and then keeping them happy. What do those hoping to…
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The Louisiana Board of Regents has learned that they’re owed a decent chunk of money. "The Board of Regents was supposed to have received about $15…
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As F. King Alexander begins his third year leading the LSU System, he talks with Sue Lincoln about what he really expected when he took the job. He puts…