The House Ways & Means Committee held its first meeting looking at how the state can eliminate income taxes, but still pay for government services.
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The Louisiana Citizens Insurance Corporation is seeking to raise rates by 63-percent because of higher reinsurance costs and also an increase in demand for homeowners coverage as a result of eight private insurance companies going out of business in Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Insurance is reviewing the rate increase proposal.

Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Office of Tourism are relaunching the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. The announcement was made at the Whitney Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish. Nungesser says the trail originally launched in 2008 with 26 sites and eventually grew to 38. He says the state also has a Civil Rights Trail, but they will now look to expand the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail…
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The President and CEO of Ochsner Health is leaving Louisiana to run a hospital system in California. Warner Thomas has led Ochsner for the last decade and during that time the size of the health system tripled. Thomas says Ochsner’s current C-F-O Pete November will take over as the new CEO in six weeks…
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Thomas is joining Sutter Health, based in Sacramento, California.