Louisiana’s film industry will be keeping a keen eye on the tax reform debate in Baton Rouge. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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But there have been studies conducted by the state Economic Development Department and Economist Loren Scott that the film tax credit program actually costs the state more than it produces.
A couple of big high school football games in the state tonight…Airline versus Byrd in Shreveport and St. Thomas More against Teurlings Catholic in Lafayette.
The 56th annual Louisiana Pecan Festival is this weekend in the Grant Parish town of Colfax. The three day festival draws between 60 and 75-thousand visitors and Louisiana Pecan Festival president Danielle Yerby says natives who have moved away, also come back each year…
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The weekend kicks off with a Children’s day and there’s a street dance and fireworks show Saturday night.
At 2 AM Sunday, Daylight Saving Time ends and we fall back one hour. Doctor Kennth St. Charles, Regional CEO of the American Red Cross, says check your batteries in your smoke detector and if you’re smoke detector is more than ten years old, it’s a good idea to replace them….
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