Louisiana’s riverboat casinos report a 10-percent decline in revenue for the fiscal year that ended June 30th. Louisiana Gaming Control Board Chairman Ronnie Jones says legal sports betting in Mississippi and the growth of indian casinos in Okalhoma are drawing customers away…
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Seven casinos saw a 10 percent or more decline in revenue.

Louisiana’s latest employment report finds that Houma has lost the most jobs out of any market, with 29-hundred fewer jobs since June 2018. Louisiana Workforce Commission Chief Economist Ali bustamante…
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Shreveport is down 2,400 jobs year to year, and Baton Rouge is down 1,700.

Republican U-S Representative Clay Higgins of St. Landry Parish was among a bipartisan group of Congressmen who visted a Southern border detention center in McAllen, Texas. Higgins says the U-S has the most generous immigration system anywhere
Cut 12 (13) “…and Chuck Schumer.”
Higgins says the facilities are at overcapacity, but they are trying to process these children of God in a very humane manner.

Louisiana’s annual performance report on the criminal justice reform package approved in 2017 finds it has saved the state over 12-million dollars, twice the anticipated savings. Department of Corrections Secretary James LeBlanc…
cut 13 (08) “…would be today.”
Leblanc says they are reinvesting the savings into programs that help to reduce recidivism.