A mostly fiscal legislative session is underway at the Louisiana capitol. How to spend the state’s money will be a focus of the two month long session.
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That’s La-Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford, who says Gretna lawmaker Joe Marino is proposing to increase legislators’ annual salary from $16,800 to 60-thousand dollars in 2024. Marino says being a legislator is a time consuming job for an annual salary that pays around 17-thousand dollars a year…
cut 5 (11) “…you started”
If approved, the pay raise would go into effect with the new legislative body in 2024. Marino says he is not running for re-election.

A statewide poll of one-thousand likely voters finds that 49-percen describe themselves as pro-choice and 44-percent pro-life. John Couvillon with JMC Analytics says 53 percent of the respondents support a constitutional amendment to establish the right to an abortion. He says after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v Wade…
Cut 9 (12) “…level of exceptions.”
Several advocacy groups who support a woman’s right to choose commissioned the survey.

There was an officer-involved fatal shooting last night in Lafayette. Officers responded to a shooting at the La Bamba Bar Lounge on Johnston Street and State Police Trooper Thomas Goosen says an officer working detailed responded to the shooting and fired his weapon, killing an unidentified subject….
cut 13 (09) “…the officer was not injured”