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Crawfish briefly trumped the issues of concern to U.S. Sen. David Vitter, but the candidate for governor said stabilizing the state’s budget is an obvious concern.
“I’m laying out a lot of ideas,” he said as he visited the World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-off Sunday.

By Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics.com
In another move that suggests this year’s race for governor could become the most expensive ever waged in the state’s history, another super PAC has announced its intentions to pour money into the election.

AT&T* has invested more than $1 billion in its best-in-class wireless and wired networks in Louisiana between 2012 through 2014, driving a wide range of upgrades to reliability, coverage, speed and performance for residents and business customers.

A beautiful sunshine day on Sunday drove large crowds to the 30th annual World Championship Crawfish Etouffee Cook-off held at the Northwest Community Pavilion.

BATON ROUGE — The St. Landry Parish unemployment was 7.8 percent in February, down from 8.6 percent January, but up from 6.4 percent a year ago in February, according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday.