By Quint Forgey
BATON ROUGE —Â As band of emotional and frustrated residents from the beleaguered town of St. Joseph in Tensas Parish pleaded with lawmakers Wednesday for help obtaining cleaner, safer water for their children.
By Justin DiCharia
BATON ROUGE — Four safety net hospitals in Bogalusa, Lake Charles, Alexandria and Houma and 30,000 college students are the losers in Gov. John Bel Edwards’ executive budget presented to the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday.
By Justin DiCharia
BATON ROUGE — Higher education leaders indicated Tuesday there would be furloughs for the University of Louisiana System and consolidation LSU AgCenter’s research and extension services — perhaps even terminations — under the newly proposed cuts by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
State agencies got the bad news earlier in the day of the governor’s proposed budget reductions starting July 1 to help close at $750 million revenue projected shortfall.
By Tierra Smith
BATON ROUGE — Child support payments may increase on average of 5 percent for families with more than two children, but decrease for families with one child.
House Bill 933, sponsored by Rep. Gregory Miller, R-Norco, employs more recent data on child-reading expenditures to set the new child support payment guidelines, which hasn’t been updated since 1991.
By Justin DiCharia
BATON ROUGE – On the eve of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ release of next year’s budget, the testimony of nervous state agency brass during a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting Monday offered a sneak peek.
By Michael Tarver
BATON ROUGE – A bill that would allow Louisiana residents free admission six days a year to popular sites, such as The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, passed through the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee without opposition today and headed to the full Senate for further consideration.
By Jack Richards
By Jack Richards
LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau 