8:30 LRN Newscast

Louisiana saw its population increase in 2024 for the first time in several years. Colleen Crain has more…

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Governor Jeff Landry told Talk 107-3 in Baton Rouge that his tax reform plan will eliminate the corporate franchise tax, which will lure new businesses to the state, help the ones currently here…

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Looking ahead to her second year in office, Attorney General Liz Murrill says she would like to focus on the fentanyl crisis. Murrill says she’s borrowing an idea from Arizona, appointing a fentanyl opioid specialist to help decide how to spend opioid settlement money that’s resulting in millions of dollars going to the states from companies that manufactured, sold or distributed prescription painkillers…

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And Secretary of State Nancy Landry says in her second year, she wants to move forward on purchasing new voting machines for the state to replace Louisiana’s voting machines that are about 30 years old…

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Landry says they have not determined a system, but the new machines will have a paper component that will help with recounts and a paper trail on how people voted.