Governor-elect Jeff Landry will hold a press conference in Lafayette today to introduce members of his transition team. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat…
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Landry will be sworn into office on January 8th.

U-S Senator Bill Cassidy is co-sponsoring legislation called the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The legislation requires hazing incidents to be included in a college’s annual crime report….
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Steve Gruver, the father of Max Gruzer, says this legislation could have saved his son’s life. Max pledged at Phi Delta Theta and died in a hazing incident. The year before that same fraternity was suspended because of hazing.

The House Transportation Committee has rejected a proposal to use state and federal dollars plus toll money to build a two-point-one billion dollar I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles. Lake Charles Representative Wilford Carter urged the committee to vote for the plan, because he’s concerned if they do not, a new bridge will never be built…
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But Sulphur Representative Les Farnum says tolls are only used in the United States when you are building a new highway
Cut 14 (10) “…not the place.”
The financing proposal was shot down eight to six and it will likely be left up to the next administration on what to do with the current bridge that was build in 1952.