By Joby Richard
The Gaming Control Board announced Thursday that it would ask three riverboat casinos in Northwest Louisiana to explain their consistent failures to meet voluntary minority procurement goals.
Read the story in The Shreveport Times.
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What’s next for Raising Cane’s? A deal with Panda Express, franchise locations in Hawaii, Alaska
By Katie Gagliano
Raising Cane’s is entering two of its newest markets aboard Panda Express.
Asian food-dining mogul Andrew Cherng, Panda’s co-founder and co-CEO, has inked a deal with the Baton Rouge-based company to franchise the chicken finger restaurant in Hawaii and Alaska, with plans to open locations there by year’s end.
Read the story in The Advocate.
Popularity contest: Can Edwards rally support for budget proposals?
By Kaylee Poche and Ryan Noonan
Gov. John Bel Edwards will have to put his personal popularity on the line to rally support for his proposals to close a $1 billion state budget gap if he continues to face resistance from Republican lawmakers, political strategists say.
Read the story in The Advertiser.
Monument to honor families of fallen soldiers
By Joby Richard
The state’s Gold Star Families Honoring Committee on Thursday approved the design for a monument near the Capitol honoring the families of fallen soldiers.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
Raising Cane’s expanding to Hawaii, Alaska through partnership
By Katie Gagliano
Panda Express co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Cherng visited his company’s LSU Student Union location Wednesday morning, inspecting the kitchen and shaking hands with line cooks preparing meals for students.
Cherng was in Baton Rouge for the Raising Cane’s Operators Conference after Cherng’s Panda Restaurant Group inked a deal with the Baton Rouge-based company to franchise the chicken finger restaurant in Hawaii and Alaska.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
TOPS Task Force votes to reward recipients based on performance
By Joby Richard
The state’s TOPS Task Force voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend nine changes in the scholarship program, including one that would reduce awards for lower-performing students while increasing them for high-performing students.
Read the story in The Minden Press-Herald.
TOPS: What is the legislative task force proposing?
Medicaid work requirement wouldn’t change much in Louisiana
By Kaylee Poche and Ryan Noonan
Even though requiring Medicaid recipients to work is one of the few areas in which Gov. John Bel Edwards and Republican legislators agree, experts say implementing the rules may not have much of an impact.
House Speaker Taylor Barras, R-New Iberia, proposed Medicaid work requirements in a letter to the governor last week, and Edwards has long said he supported the general concept. The governor’s aides met with Trump administration officials in Washington last month to discuss the details, including what would be considered “work” under the program.
Read the story in NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune.
Felony class system task force members at odds over ‘back-end’ sentencing measures
By Paul Braun
Prosecutors and defense attorneys on a state task force are at odds over the panel’s recommendations of a felony class system but agree that they need to make the proposals work.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
New system could help predict, prevent flooding
By Brianna Jones-Williams and Martha Ramirez
Louisiana could be one of the first states to have a statewide system to predict flooding.
The Water Institute of the Gulf, a non-profit research institute, told a joint legislative committee Tuesday that it could develop such a system to help to reduce flood damage.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
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