Despite more than $1 billion in tax increases from the Legislature this year, Louisiana colleges and universities are looking down the barrel of budget cuts for the ninth year running.
Louisiana’s construction budgetary drama reached its denouement on Father’s Day as lawmakers left family celebrations to gather Sunday night at the Statehouse in a 94-6 concurrence of Senate amendments to the $1.4 billion in state cash lines of credit for local capital projects.
The House’s last tax proposal to bring in revenue to balance the next fiscal year’s budget failed 46-55 Sunday night in spite of an emotional plea by its sponsor.
House Appropriations chairman Cameron Henry, R-Mandeville. Credit: D.B. Narveson
The House Appropriations Committee voted 18-4 along party lines to cut another $9 million from the House’s further attempt at balancing the state’s budget.
Eunice Farmer’s Market summer set
The Eunice Farmers’ Market will meet on Second Street twice a week, from 1 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, and again Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
