Another special session has started at the State Capitol, after lawmakers failed to pass a budget for next fiscal year. Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards calls it an epic failure by House Republican leadership…:
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The standoff ended up being over $50 million dollars in spending. That’s how much the Senate & Edwards agreed to hold back, but the House wanted to save $100 million in case of a midyear shortfall. House Appropriations Chair Cameron Henry…:
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The House will begin holding meetings Monday. The Senate has to wait for the lower chamber so they return to the Capitol Wednesday.

A report from Time Magazine finds New Orleans is one of the top five metro areas in the country for millennials to live. Demographer Greg Rigamer says that’s the 25-34 age group…:”
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The recent survey finds the city saw a nearly 9-percent increase in millennials from 2010 to 2015.

If you’re headed that way this weekend, know that I-10 East between the Sorrento and Gramercy exits will be closed for construction starting tonight at 9. DOTD spokesman Rodney Mallet says crews will install a repaired on-ramp bridge…:
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It will re-open Monday morning at the latest.