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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Lake Charles Senator Mark Abraham knows tolls are unpopular, but necessary because there are not enough federal and state dollars available…
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The state Bond commission still has to give approval before construction can begin.

Despite winning the school’s first national championship in women’s basketball, the LSU program ran a deficit of nearly eight million dollars last fiscal year according to a report released by the Legislative Auditor’s Office. State auditor John Thiebaud (Tee-bow)…
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The NCAA recently agreed to a new TV deal which should help boost revenues for women’s basketball programs.

Former Louisiana death row inmate Michael Graham has passed away. He served on death row for 14 years, before DNA evidence cleared him of a double murder that took place in Union Parish in 1986. Director of Death Penalty Action Abe Bonowitz says Graham died a poor man because he was never compensated for being wrongfully convicted. He says they’ve set up a Go Fund me page in his memory…
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