The House and Senate Transportation committees give the green light for the state to use tolls to help pay for a new I-10 bridge in Lake Charles. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Governor Jeff Landry is holding a press conference this hour in Thibodeaux where he’s naming former Terrebonne Parish President Gordon Dove as head the Governor’s Office of Coastal Activities and chair the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board of Directors.
Should the Bayou phase out personal and corporate income taxes, corporate franchise taxes, and local inventory taxes? State Governor Jeff Landry’s Economic Development and Fiscal Policy Council thinks so. Louisiana Department of Revenue Secretary Richard Nelson says the state’s tax code is outdated. When asked what his solutions are to offset the lost revenue to the state treasury…
Michael Graham Jr., who was wrongly convicted of murdering a Union Parish Couple in 1986, died in poverty last week. After serving 14 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, Graham was exonerated and released from Angola in December of 2000 with $10 and a bus ticket. Executive Director of Death Penalty Action, Abe Bonowitz …