Entergy files for state regulatory permission to vastly expand its solar energy capabilities. Kevin Gallagher reports…:
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State lawmakers have approved 42-million dollars in grant money that will go to eight different insurance companies who will use the funds to begin writing property insurance policies in coastal Louisiana. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is hopeful 90-thousand policyholders who currently have Citizens Insurance, can find a private insurer starting next month.

Longtime L-A-B-I official Jim Patterson is the interim president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, taking over for gubernatorial candidate Stephen Waguespack. With the legislative session coming up, Patterson says L-A-B-I will be involved in the property insurance crisis and they would like to see the legislature address the high taxes on insurance premiums…
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The longest-serving member in the Louisiana Legislature has switched parties. Delhi Representative Francis Thompson was a lifelong Democrat,
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Thompson says a majority of the voters in his House District 19 are Republican and the 81-year-old says he’s running for re-election this fall.