Jeremy Alford
Rep. Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge, is already facing opposition to his HB 676 to legalize fantasy gaming — think football, basketball and baseball — before the bill has even had its first hearing.
As current Louisiana law stands, any police officer of firefighter who engages in political activity as minute as a retweet or a Facebook post automatically is terminated on the first offense.
Sen. Ryan Gatti, R-Bossier City, believes that is too harsh.
Gov. John Bel Edwards presented a budget to the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday that would cut TOPS by $183.2 million for the next academic year, equating to a 62 percent cut to the program’s finances and excluding thousands of students receiving state money for tuition.
Gov. John Bel Edwards
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.
Justin DiCharia
Louisiana has 485 government boards and commissions. It’s the Amazon jungle of bureaucracies, and for a state so red that it took a prostitution scandal to put a Democrat in state office, an inconsistent reality to a Republican ideology.
