Governor John Bel Edwards says it’s a good sign Louisiana ended up with a 300-million dollar surplus from the budget year that ended June 30th. Jeff Palermo has the story…
After seeing losses in 2017, movie theatres are experiencing their best summer in two decades. It’s quite the feat considering the popularity of at home video on demand services such as Netflix. North American ticket sales will close out the summer season with more than a 14% increase. Entertainment columnist for the New Orleans Advocate Keith Spera says the weather might play a factor.
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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.