Governor John Bel Edwards says Louisiana finished the fiscal year that ended June 30th with a budget surplus of approximately 300-million dollars.Edwards says they can now use some of this money to fund long-awaited highway projects.
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The state constitution limits how state surplus dollars can be spent, but construction is one of the areas it can be spent in.
After seeing losses in 2017, movie theatres are experiencing their best summer in two decades. Entertainment columnist for the New Orleans Advocate Keith Spera says the weather might play a factor.
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North American summer ticket sales summer season increased more than a 14%.
The Public Service Commission launches an investigation into the spending habits of rural energy coops. Commissioner Foster Campbell highlighted what he says were completely unnecessary educational and lobbying trips to places like Las Vegas and Washington DC, where he says costs for expensive meals and hotels would end up back on customer bills. He says the co-op’s justifications don’t hold up.
But Claiborne Co-op General Manager Mark Brown says those accusations are not correct, and the trips are needed, as they give co-op leaders the opportunity to learn about new advancements in the electric industry. He says they take those new lessons home to provide better service to coop customers.
Campbell criticized the salary being paid to brown, which he says is 195,000 dollars a year.