Senate Finance Chairman Bodi White says a big mistake was made as lawmakers rushed to approve a budget on the final day of the session. That mistake resulted in a 100-million dollar cut to the Louisiana Department of Health at a time when the state is enjoying huge surpluses. White says if he had to do it again, he would not have brought the budget bill up for a vote in the waning minutes of the session…
cut 11 (04) “….special session”
Now White is calling on the governor to use his line item authority and remove the cut from the budget so funding could be restored to L-D-H.

According to credit-card-dot-com, Louisiana has the third highest credit card debt burden with an average credit card balance of 54-hundred dollars. Senior Industry Analyst Ted Rossman says six out of every ten people with credit card debt have been in debt for at least a year, up 50-percent from the previous year…
cut 15 (13) “….sooner than that”
Rossman says his top tip is to sign up for a zero-percent balance transfer card.

State Treasurer John Schroder is calling on state agencies to accept electronic payment options like PayPal and Venmo.
Cut 1 (32) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

In his first start of the season, LSU left-hander Nate Ackenahusen threw six shutout innings as the Tigers blanked Tennessee five to nothing to stay alive in the College World Series. Coach Jay Johnson on why he went with Ack…
cut 28 (05) “…I liked”
LSU faces Wake Forest tonight. Need a win to keep their season alive.