Council for a Better Louisiana is our with their 2015 recommendations for the next governor and legislature on issues like healthcare, education and roads. CABL President Barry Erwin says they’d like to see a restructuring of the TOPS scholarship program to ensure its sustainability for the future. He says the cost of TOPS should not automatically grow with an increase in tuition…:
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They’d also like to see an increase in the gas tax to invest into Louisiana’s roads and they also support Medicaid expansion.

ESPN is reporting that they’ve spoken to orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews who said New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees does in fact have a bruised rotator cuff. The veteran QB said there is a “reasonable possibility” he will play this Sunday against the Panthers, but it just depends on how well he responds to treatment this week.

The issue of raising the minimum wage was brought up during a gubernatorial forum in Baton Rouge Monday. Democrat John Bel Edwards
says he supports giving Louisiana’s lowest paid workers more money. Republican Jay Dardenne disagrees. He says raising the minimum wage has proved to be counterproductive in many different ways…:
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Republican Scott Angelle also says education is the key to higher paying jobs. Republican candidate David Vitter did not attend the forum.

New numbers from the Centers for Disease Control found in a state-by-state analysis that Louisiana had the fourth highest adult obesity rate in the nation in 2014. The numbers show that the obesity rate here is at almost 35%, up from 23 percent in 2000. Arkansas has the highest adult obesity rate at 36 percent, while Colorado has the lowest at 21 percent.