By Devon Sanders
While Louisiana has a website ranked among the nation’s best in providing access to spending data, Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday that they would like to improve it as part of negotiations to solve the state’s impending budget shortfall.
Read the story in The Eunice News.
By Sarah Gamard and Katie Gagliano
House Speaker Taylor Barras did not release revenue proposals on Friday for dealing with a projected $1 billion budget shortfall, but he and Gov. John Bel Edwards are still talking about how they might address the problem.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
By Caleb Greene, LSU Daily Reveille
The chance of rain in Tiger Stadium? Never. The chance of light? Always.
Over 100,000 seats sit unoccupied under the glow of Tiger Stadium’s LED-lit scoreboards every night from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. As the cathedral of college football shines bright in the night, many LSU students wonder why the scoreboards are on if no one is there to see it.
Read the story in The Daily Advertiser.
By Ryan Noonan and Kaylee Poche
Republican legislators are expressing concern about their party’s proposal to require Medicaid recipients to a pay a portion of their medical costs because federal rules prohibit Medicaid recipients from being denied treatment due to lack of payment.
Read the story in The Shreveport Times.
By Sheridan Wall, LSU Daily Reveille
After one student said she was from Tulsa, Oklahoma, James Carville interrupted first-class introduction traditions with what he called the “anthem of socialist America,” Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
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By Joby Richard
While a legislative task force is considering a proposal to reduce funding for some TOPS scholarships, it also is being asked to expand the program in other ways.
One task force member, Sen. Mack “Bodi” White Jr., R-Baton Rouge, would like to let students at community and technical colleges keep their scholarships if they transfer to four-year universities. And Sen. Wesley Bishop, D-New Orleans, says the state should give four-year students who initially fail to qualify for TOPS a second chance if they do well in their first two years in college.
Read the story in The News Star.
By Devon Sanders
Although Louisiana has a website ranked among the nation’s best in providing access to spending data, Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday that they would like to improve it as part of negotiations to solve the state’s impending budget shortfall.
Read the story in the Daily Advertiser.
By Joby Richard
Sen. Dan Morrish received criticism at Wednesday’s TOPS Task Force meeting over his proposals to reduce awards to lower-performing students and increasing stipends for higher-performing ones.
Read the story in the Daily Advertiser.
By Natalie Anderson and Kaylee Poche
House Speaker Taylor Barras on Tuesday proposed new spending caps and other cost-saving measures that the Republicans would like to couple with any revenue-raising measures that Gov. John Bel Edwards seeks to deal with a looming state budget shortfall.
Read the story in the Daily Advertiser.
By Paul Braun
Members of a task force convened to streamline Louisiana’s criminal code voted Tuesday to recommend that the Legislature introduce a felony class system that would place more than 660 felonies into eight categories and provide more consistent sentencing.
Read the story in The Town Talk.
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