For the second year in a row, Louisiana voters emphatically say no to all proposed constitutional amendments. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Amendment Three is one of the amendments that failed. It would have freed up money to provide teachers with a pay raise. For the last couple of years, a portion of a teacher’s salary has been considered a stipend. Governor Jeff Landy said today that if teachers do not get a pay raise, no one in state government will get a pay raise.
A third-place finish in the Senate Republican Primary likely means that Senator Bill Cassidy’s political career will end when his term ends after the first of the year. Before he was a politician, Doctor Cassidy practiced medicine and UNO political science professor Ed Chervenak says Cassidy performing policy work in the health care arena could be his next move…
Cassidy is 68 years old and he’s either been a state legislator or Congressman since 2006.
The Louisiana Attorney General’s office announces the arrest of 60 registered sex offenders in the capital city area for violating sex offender registration laws by communicating with children on the internet. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre says state law is clear, if you are a registered sex offender as a result of a crime against children, you cannot use social media platforms, chat rooms and peer-to-peer networks…