The 2021 legislative session ends today. The Senate still has to approve bills dealing with a tax swap plan that will lower income tax rates and legislators are still looking at shifting vehicle sales tax revenues towards highway transportation projects. The budget is already done. Council for a Better Louisiana President Barry Erwin says the spending plan contains the largest investment in higher education in more than a decade…
cut 9 (09) “…step forward”

Oral arguments are today in a federal courtroom in Lafayette as Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry challenges the Biden administration’s pause on new oil and gas lease sales on public lands. Landry says the case is before Judge Terry Doughty…
cut 12 (10) “…of Mexico”

The FDA has approved the first new medication in almost 20 years for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, but Dr. Jeffrey Keller with the LSU Pennington Biomedical Institute on Dementia Research and Prevention says Aducanumab (add-yoo-CAN-yoo-mab) was approved despite an advisory committee voting against its approval
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Keller says research continues on finding a better way to treat Alzheimer’s.

Today former governor, Congressman, and presidential candidate Boddy Jindal turns 50. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the once superstar politician has faded from the limelight ever since his two terms as governor ended in 2016
Cut 4 (08) “…to change Louisiana.”
Jindal is still active in pushing a conservative agenda on a national level.