By Jack Richards
BATON ROUGE — An idea to take political expediency out of streamlining state bureaucracy took root Friday, ironically when both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature were on holiday.
Lake Charles Mayor Randy Roach presented a bill by Sen. Ronnie Johns, R-Lake Charles, at the weekly meeting of the Task Force on Structural Changes in the Budget and Tax Policy that would create a uniquely powerful commission independent of the Legislature.
LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 