Despite strong opposition from truckers, the House and Senate Transportation committees approved Governor Jeff Landry’s plan to use a combination of federal and state dollars, plus tolls, to build a new I-10 bridge in Lake Charles. Director for the Louisiana Motor Transport Association, Renee Amar, says truckers look at tolls as an additional tax…
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But supporters of the project say a new bridge is desperately needed in Lake Charles and there’s just not enough federal and state tax dollars available to fund the two-point-one billion dollar project. The State Bond Commission still has to give its support.

A state audit of the LSU athletics department finds it finished the fiscal year that ended last June with almost a four-million dollar deficit. But John Tiebaud with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office says the department would have finished in the red, if did not take five-million dollars in revenues and give it to the academic side of the university…
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Should the state phase out its personal and corporate income taxes? Gov. Jeff Landry’s Economic Development and Fiscal Policy Council thinks so. Teiko Foxx has more…
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