The America’s Health Rankings Senior Report from the United Health Foundation has found that in the past six years, the percentage of senior citizens in Louisiana suffering from depression has increased 43-percent. Doctor Rhonda Randal with United HealthCare National Markets explains what might be leading to the increase….
cut 6 (12) “…rates of depression”

Governor John Bel Edwards is seeking federal assistance to help pay for the nearly six-million dollars in preliminary uninsured damages to Ruston from an EF-3 tornado. Edwards says unfortunately because of beaucratic rules, it might be awhile before the federal dollars arrive…
cut 3 (10) “…normal”
Louisiana Tech has an estimated five million dollars in uninsured damages and the total amount of damages is about 20-million dollars.
A proposal to roll back the state sales tax rate from 4.45-percent to four-percent is heading to the House floor after it received approval from the House Appropriations committee. But Executive counsel for the governor, Matthew Block, says reducing the state sales tax will result in less dollars for the state to pay for pressing needs…
cut 11 (09) “…about infrastucture”
With just over two weeks left in the session, this measure might not have enough time to get through the process.

Today is Early Childhood Education Day and advocates are using this day to push for 31-million dollars in additional funding to help reduce a wait list that has families on it, seeking funding to send their young children to child care. But the governor wants to spend an additional 39-million dollars on public schools. Louisiana Policy Institute for Children Melanie Bronfin says no successful educational program is successful without both…
cut 15 (07) “….those things”