A task force established to come up with solutions to Louisiana having the highest auto insurance rates in the country finds that rates are on the rise again. Jeff Palermo has the story…:

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Commuters are shocked and parents don’t know what to tell their kids about some graphically dirty graffiti that turned up Sunday under an overpass on Shreveport’s Line Avenue. Residents are flooding city council members with calls to have the trashy stuff painted over.

Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is reacting to the voter rejection of Amendment 1 on Saturday that would have set the wheels in motion for the state to have a centralized tax collection system. Schexnayder says he doesn’t believe state lawmakers are about to throw in the towel on having Louisiana adopt a single tax commission, rather than the 54 entities dotting the state now…:

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Attorney General Jeff Landry has filed another suit against the Biden Administration, over vaccine mandates. This time he’s challenging the legality of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, mandating all employees be vaccinated at facilities that receive CMS funding…:

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Landry’s office investigates alleged Medicaid fraud, so he says this gets pretty close to home.