Attorney General Jeff Landry is defending the 7-6 vote of the Bond Commission to exclude Citibank and Bank of America as part of a $600 million road financing plan in the state. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The DEA is reducing the number of opioids that pharmaceutical companies are allowed to make for the third year in a row. Senator John Kennedy praised the move but says the current production levels are far beyond what the public needs.
Max Gruver’s family is suing LSU, that national and local Phi Delta Theta fraternities, and individuals in the fraternity for 25 million dollars in a civil suit related to Max’s death last year in an alleged hazing incident. Baton Rouge Lawyer and Legal Analyst Borghardt says suing public institutions is notoriously difficult, but in this situation they have a good case.
Gruver’s death lead to the passage of the “Max Gruver Act” which makes people involved in hazing related deaths liable for felony charges, and ups the fine and prison time for those found guilty of hazing.
Since taking office in January 2017, US Congressman Mike Johnson has held thirty-one town hall meetings in the state’s fourth district, adding three more this past week. Last summer saw mass protests targeting republican town halls around the caucus’s push to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Johnson says the conflicts have recently cooled down, but that other politicians were deterred by protestors.