The Louisiana Senate approves legislation that would allow local governments to hold a vote to see if their residents want to have fluoride removed from their drinking water. Houma Republican Mike Fesi is the author of the bill; he says fluoride is bad for your body and your brain.
Local governments began adding fluoride to public water systems in the mid-1900s as a way to prevent tooth decay.
The Medicare Advantage plan is getting an increase in federal funding of nearly two and a half percent. Darren Grubb with the advocacy group Medicare Advantage Majority says the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had originally proposed a funding increase of just nine-hundredths of one-percent, and that was not going to be nearly enough.
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The LSU baseball program will receive more revenue sharing dollars to help the program keep winning championships. Joe Gallinaro has the story.
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The state is out with its audit of last year’s Orleans Parish jailbreak. The audit shows that failures in finances, staffing and security led to ten inmates escaping the facility last May. The inmates ripped a toilet from an exterior wall and escaped through the hole. One of them was on the lam for almost five months before he was recaptured.