The House Appropriations committee has backed a plan that would give the Attorney General’s Office more oversight over its own budget. Metairie Representative Cameron Henry says A-G Jeff Landry requested more freedom to determine how to spend his agency’s allotted state funds…
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Governor John Bel Edwards says this action is not only unconstitutional, it’s also bad policy….
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The full House will debate this issue some more later in the week.

Flags are at half-staff over the State Capitol and all public buildings today in honor of Frank Levingston of Lake Charles. He was the oldest verified World War Two vet, who died earlier this month at the age of 110.

A poll of over six-hundred likely voters in Louisiana finds Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has a big lead over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. John Couvillion of JMC Analytics conducted the survey and he says the poll shows very little evidence of Republican disunity…
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Trump received an approval rating of 47-percent in the poll, while Clinton and Sanders disapproval rating was above 55-percent.

The state legislature is close to approving a bill that would require signs warning motorists of intersections where red-light traffic cameras are present. New Orleans Senator Troy Carter says if there are no signs and driver gets ticketed for blowing a red light, they’ll have the opportunity to contest that ticket…
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The full House still has to approve it and it then heads to the governor’s desk.