The House Ways and Means Committee meets this morning to discuss the various revenue bills that lawmakers can pass to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. New Iberia Representative Terry Landry has a measure to renew a half-penny of an expiring one-cent sales tax to generate 500-million dollars, which would be enough to fully fund TOPS, higher education, the department of corrections and the food stamp program. He says his bill is the best solution to the fiscal cliff…
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But Erath Representative Blake Miguez says he’s heard from residents in his district and they want lower taxes and less government spending…
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The special session must end June 27th.

Video games can be a fun pass time, but now the World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games qualifies as a new mental health condition. Kevin Barnhart has more…
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