The 2019 Louisiana Survey out of LSU finds that 47-percent of the respondents believe the state is heading in the right direction and that’s an increase from 39-percent last year. Director of the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs Doctor Jenee Slocum on Louisiana residents top priorities…
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But 80-percent of the people surveyed do not expect the state’s elected leaders can solve the state’s biggest problems.

The state transportation department will hold a public meeting today in Mandeville to discuss proposed improvements to I-12. This comes after the state received a 25-million dollar grant from the feds. Four people died on the highway near the Tchefuncte River on Memorial day last year, and Parish President Pat Brister says local residents demanded action.
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Brister hopes they can do a comprehensive overhaul of the I-12 from 1077 to Highway 59, but it will take more than 25-million dollars.

A Shreveport Senator has a bill that would ban Louisiana abortions after a heartbeat is detectable in the fetus…
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US Senators John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy met with federal bureaucrats yesterday in an effort to fix the duplication of benefits problem that has kept thousands of 2016 flood victims from receiving additional assistance. Cassidy says they may need to get Donald Trump involved…
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